Blood runs deep

Athe t Brindley Bank Aqueduct in Staffordshire, of 37-yearTrent & Mersey Canal is haunted by the ghost and murdered old Christina Collins, who was brutally raped by barge to there on 17 June 1839 as she travelled down London to join her husband, Robert. two were Three boatmen were convicted of her killing; body was dragged hanged, the third transported. As Christina’s of sandstone near the Talbot Inn, her blood ran down a flight red stain reappear steps leading from the canal, and it’s said the Bloody Steps. on those stones – giving them their name, the