{"id":37007,"date":"2026-10-30T05:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=37007"},"modified":"2026-10-30T05:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:56:54","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/the-end-of-the-world-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunting at the Priory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very interested in photography <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And recording railway stations mainly at night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something still that I like to record <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About five years ago I found myself in Dover<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The geography of this station fascinated me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it was overlooked by hills at both ends <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was while I was taking my photographs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That a member of station staff came up to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And asked why I was standing at the platform end <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was I waiting for the last train or just quietly smoking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or did I have something much more sinister in mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I explained that I liked photographing stations at night<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had an interesting conversation about photography <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I changed platforms and caught  my train home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought very little of this small and passing incident<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until I spoke to a porter who was also a camera enthusiast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He remembered the girl as one of the administration staff <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who for no reason walked into the tunnel from the platform <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some ten years previously an event that shook him up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the girl was very outgoing caring and much liked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of kindness I pretended to have confused my dates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But deep down I knew who I had met and what I had seen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I checked the photographs that I had taken on that visit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the station deep in its night shadows was quite empty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very interested in photography And recording railway stations mainly at night There is something still that I like to record About five years ago I found myself in Dover The geography of this station fascinated me As it was overlooked by hills at both ends It was while I was taking my photographs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37014,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37007\/revisions\/37014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}