The House Behind the Wall

"The Curse of the Claw," - "A Ripping Story of Fear, Tragedy and Terror,"
 

Another claim-to-fame for Rippingale.
 
“One day in 1975, Palin, later even more famous for his film acting and travel programmes, was driving south towards Bourne down the A 15 and passed the signpost for the village of Rippingale. The name stuck in his mind and was bounced round until he and Jones came up with a series of six episodes of a series they named "Ripping Yarns,"
 
This is ‘Ringstone House’ (where the episode was filmed) and is what we see every day when we leave our little cul-de-sac. This morning, starting out on my daily constitutional, I asked myself why I had never photographed  it  before.
 
Click on the link above to read the full story, an article by my friend Jim Latham.