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| Inscription inside rear cover |
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| Inside rear cover |
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| Inside front cover |
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| Peter Barraclough's Holy Bible |
This Bible looks similar to artefacts found and photographed on urban exploration and derelict buildings forums and websites.
With hidden web names and expensive cameras, these chaps, occasionally accompanied by their Emo looking ladies, (a very discombobulated affair), slither their way in to places no longer occupied, but often stuffed with no longer needed, outmoded but at one time cherished trappings of not necessarily THAT long ago.
I feel the real trick must be the actual thrill of finding what is left behind and getting those all important, atmospheric photographs which eagerly still appear on some forums, though Urbex Forums itself, my total favourite, has gone rather quiet of late.
In recent years the press have tried to muscle in on the urban exploration scene. Consequently, its not quite 'high ton' any more, to coin a Regency term for very fashionable, but its still 'on dit' i.e. much talked about in some circles.
That though, is where the similarity ends with this particular item. It is a Bible that once belonged to my much older brother, given to him as a Christmas present by his maternal Victorian grandparents, when Peter was nine,long before I was actually born.
The Bible is faded and possibly a little decrepit, speaking of another time and era. It is still cared for though, I keep it, well wrapped in a polythene bag, in my bedroom, not out of tear jerking sentimentality, but because it is a Bible and because it once belonged to my brother.
