This is something that only last seconds probably....
I am from Runcorn but was born in Liverpool where some of my family still live. I met my mum and my auntie (they are twins if that has any relevance whatsoever) in Liverpool town centre to have look around. Now I am not completely familiar with Liverpool street names but I think it was the bit where a road and some traffic lights dissect the main shopping street next to the Lloyds TSB bank and you walk up a bit and you have the underground station on your left. I think there is a waterstones there also.
Well I had gone for a look round on my own and had headed up in that direction to meet them when I saw a group of people dressed in Edwardian clothes and hats. They looked like and had the body mannerisms of modern people though rather than the mannerisms and gait and movements of Edwardian people in films set in Edwardian times (though I know these are only films and in real life they probably moved and had the mannerisms we do now). I just assumed they were people working for one of the local stores because I now live in Windsor and in the cobbled streets by Windsor Castle they have people dressed up in Edwardian Costume to entertain the tourists and lure them into some of the tourist shops there. I also noticed they seemed to look at me briefly with slight contempt as though there was something wrong with me and then after that they forgot about me. I must add to that last comment that although I am quite paranoid anyway I do look normal, honestly I think, so their reaction puzzled me.
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Anyway, I walked into a shop and met my mum and auntie and asked them if there was some store nearby which employed people who wore Edwardian costumes...some sort of shop like Past Times or something. I also asked if they had seen them. They said they hadn't seen anybody like that standing about and nor were they aware of any shop which employed people to dress like that.
After that I kind of thought no more about it until recently and I came across some Tom Slemen (Liverpool ghost author) stories of Edwardian time slips in that very area and then gradually the memory of what I have just written about dawned on me.
I am not going to say I experienced a 'time slip' because it probably was just modern people dressed but still I got a bit spooked. But if it was a time slip that might have explained why they looked at me as if I was some sort of joker.
I also feel the need to add that what struck me was how good looking they all were and how seemingly relaxed and happy and chilled out they appeared to be. If I remember rightly, they were all wearing blacks and blues and greys with white shirts. Most were women but one was a man who seemed to be flirting with one of the women in a decidedly modern way rather than a chivalrous 'old-style' way.
I also have no memory of noticing anybody else around them and whether other people were dressed normally or not.
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