Crantara
Fiery cross used by Scottish Highlanders to rally their clans to battle.
Skyhooks (Trafford Park)
Pair of 18-metre high statues at the northern entrance to Trafford Park, erected in 1995 to mark the area’s regeneration
Stories of Men and Women in Love
Collection of four novels by H. G. Wells (1866–1946), published in 1933.
Priestess of Delphi (painting)
Oil painting by John Collier (1850–1934), depicting a priestess at the Oracle of Delphi.
Walter Arnold
First person in the UK to be fined for speeding.
Ann Izzard
Alleged witch attacked by her neighbours in the village of Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire in 1808.
River Kennall
River in south-west Cornwall.
A Mermaid
Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900, now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Wayde’s Essence
Short story by H. G. Wells, about a prominent politician who learns that the drug he has been taking for the last 17 years to dispel all self-doubt is in reality distilled water.
John Wyndham bibliography
Works by John Wyndham (1903–1969) listed in order of their date of first publication.