Just outside the village in which I was born in England,
lies a folly that was built many, many years ago.
As a kid, the meaning of the folly was turned into
a sinister meaning by older kids, as a way of bribing
the younger kids to do their bidding.
"Jack the Treacle eater will get you" was a common retort
if you didn't toe the line.
That eerie, sinister feeling still abides with me today
although I havn't seen Jack for over 50 years.
So I'll share it with you now, it has a philatelic significance
as well.
Folly : wiki
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but either suggesting by its appearance some other purpose, or merely so extravagant that it transcends the normal range of garden ornaments or other class of building to which it belongs.
Jack the Treacle Eater
Folly, the east boundary marker of the Barwick Park Estate, Somerset, built circa 1775. Rough rubble arch of about 5-metres high, crowned with a circular tower in cut and squared stone, with a battlemented parapet and conical stone roof surmounted by a lead statuette (a winged Mercury). A blocked doorway in the side of tower only has the upper part of a rough stairway leading to it. 'Jack' was reputed to be a local runner who carried family messages to London, and was said to have trained on treacle.
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