#4987 Old Blue Boar Holborn Here at scanning HQ we love an old inn! And this one, the Old Blue Boar at High Holborn, London brings that passion to provocative life. Shown on a scarce London map of 1682, it lay between High Holborn & Eagle street to the north. It gained the ‘old’ appurtenance by the mid-1700s, described as ‘one of London’s oldest houses’, additionally serving as a masonic lodge. It gained greater notoriety as the venue of choice for Newgate prisoners to have a

#4233 Holy Ghost Chapel Hampshire Evocatively named Holy Ghost Chapel in Basingstoke, Hampshire, captured here in 1772, harbours many a secret. The cemetery it served was created during the Interdict of c1208-14, ‘when King John and all of England was excommunicated by the Pope’. It meant no English burials could be placed in consecrated ground and the chapel and cemetery were created as the ‘stop-gap’ Liten – crudely, an early ‘municipal’ graveyard. It was finally consecrate

#4603 Elgin Cathedral Chapter House The romantic ruins of Elgin Cathedral in Moray Inverness never fail to rouse up the past. Founded 1224 & suffering repeated destructive acts of fire and violence, it succumbed to the Scottish Reformation of 1560 and began to collapse. Its jagged yet pleasing remains still betray its epitaph as ‘The Lantern of the North’, & here we marvel at several of its treasures, each captured in ink back in the mid-1800s. They include its Chapter House,