Confortonation Bias

Last Balcony: Essex Serpents and Pier’s Echo

Matt Lunn@motorwayservices.info

The Pennine Tower Restaurant within Forton Services has now beeen made a listed building: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19988161

My original real-time review of Simon Kurt Unsworth’s story (as quoted from here):

<<The Pennine Tower Restaurant
“THIS IS NOT FICTION.”
Indeed, it isn’t. I can vouch for that. And I don’t review non-fiction but I will say, nevertheless, that this is another excellent Chinese Whispers – Blair Witch Project project in prose, with much footnoted research material, about the haunting of a Motorway Service Station  in Lancashire called Forton. […]
I was at University at Bailrigg from 1966-69 and nearby Forton with this restaurant (newly built then) was a favourite haunt of students like me when one felt hungry – especially at, say, 3 a.m in the morning. This was the very begininning of 24/7 life that has now become so common. I can add to the research for Unsworth and I shall…

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