The Franklin Castle

09/01/2026

La música y la astronomía siempre fueron fuente de inspiración para José Segrelles.

09/01/2026

Brassaï, Black Cat on Steps, c.1945

08/24/2026

Action time, dear fellows and castle-dwellers 🕺✨
You can now vote in support for your local haunted castle 🩵✨

This historic castle began as a theater in the 1800s and has a wild history, from being a target for arson to the time a human skeleton was found in a walls. Tours of the castle vary between a general Haunted History Tour led by author and investigative historian William G. Krejci, Medium Mondays (w...

08/18/2026

Do join in on Thursday, at the Haunted History tour, for William’s reminiscences and fascinating story-telling of the castle lore. 🎟️TheFranklinCastle website or Eventbrite⚡️

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The Franklin Castle welcomes you

08/17/2026

Tomorrow at 7PM ✨you are still in time to catch up with your future ! Dive into your PRESENT and join in now for Michael will draw the cards that matter and show you around the castle✨
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08/17/2026

“The movie is a bedroom farce about a writer (Tommy Noonan) and his wife (Jayne) who are on a cruise with their friends, a famous actor (Mickey Hargitay) and his wife (Marie “The Body” McDonald). Tommy and Jayne want to have a baby, and Jayne takes various concoctions cooked up by the ship’s doctor. Tommy, who believes he is sterile, also drinks potency potions. There is a bedroom mix-up, a female impersonator who does Tallulah Bankhead imitations and two short sequences of Jayne thrashing about in bed bra-less, having disturbing dreams. It was because of these sequences that the movie was only shown in “art” theatres. Jet Fore, who was publicist for the movie, had erotic posters of Jayne printed up with a lot of words about the first time ever au naturel for a major star. Each sequence lasts about thirty seconds and bears no relation to the rest of the film which is as clean as a troop of Girl Scouts … In Promises … Promises! Jayne, wearing wedgies and skin-tight pedal pushers, straddles an open door and rubs her calf suggestively up and down against it. One expects the door to moan. It was theatre of s*x at its most laughable.”

/ From Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton, 1975 /

On this day (15 August 1963) in vintage s**t history: the scandalous Jayne Mansfield “nudie movie” Promises … Promises! (tagline: “A mad marital mix-up of husbands, wives and babies!”) was released. (Some sources list the date 5 August 1963). In the ads Mansfield teasingly promised “This is the first time that I have appeared entirely ‘au naturel’!” and promoted the film with a topless pictorial in Pl***oy magazine. Seen today, the film is almost stultifyingly tame (and unfunny) but nonetheless Promises … Promises! was a box office bonanza and represents a landmark in s*xploitation cinema.

08/17/2026

A young woman washes beside the well. With one hand, she gathers her long hair, in the other, she holds the wrinkled, aged disguise she is forced to wear throughout the day.

As night falls, she is finally able to cast it aside, revealing the beauty she must keep hidden until darkness returns.

"The Goose-Girl at the Well" illustrated by Anton Robert Leinweber, 1912

08/17/2026

Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to musician Maddy Prior (1947).