10/09/2026

The Last Bus to Sholver — One Lock Too Many

The Last Bus to Sholver by Christopher Kennedy

Six stories. Six places you can stand in today. Six people who wrote down what happened to them because nobody would have believed it said aloud.

A school wall in Werneth that remembers every name painted over it. A felled plantation above Darwen giving back what was buried. A mill whose night shift never clocked off. A house with one window more outside than in. A flight of locks that is one lock too long at night. And the last bus to Sholver, which is on time, and warm, and bound for a version of Oldham that was demolished decades ago.

The Last Bus to Sholver brings together six dark stories from the North: Graffiti, Blue Ground, Threads, The Last Bus to Sholver, Window Counter and Thirteen Locks.

NARRATION

A flight of canal locks. A route that should be familiar.

At night, there is one lock too many. Thirteen Locks turns a recognisable journey into a question you may not want answered.

One of six dark stories from the North.

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