'Matron and her work as a witch', Streatham News, 13 March 1964

Streatham News, 13 March 1964, page 13. Eleanor Bone, at her home in Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, insists that her work with the witches has nothing to do with the old people's rest home she has run in Streatham for nine years, after a patient spoke of unexplained "noises". She says she became a witch before the war, was appointed publicity officer for the witches of Southern England three weeks earlier, puts the number of witches in the country at about 600, and had appeared that week on Granada TV's "Scene at 6.30". How to cite: 'Matron and her work as a witch', Streatham News, 13 March 1964, p. 13. Alexandrian Witchcraft Timeline & Archive.

Matron and her work as a witch MRS. ELEANOR BONE said at her home in Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, on Tuesday: “My work with the witches has absolutely no connection with the rest home I run.” Mrs. Bone anxiously made this point after she heard that one patient at her old people’s rest home in Streatham said “noises,” which were not accounted for, had been heard. For nine years Mrs. Bone has been running the home at which there are normally six old people. Mrs. Bone - she became a witch before the war - said: “The old people’s relatives have no doubt heard about me on television and radio programmes but I have never allowed my connections with the old religion to impinge on the home. “The two things are entirely separate. “The trouble is the name witch has been the subject of so much persecution in the past. That worries me. “The home is run properly. The patients are well fed and well looked after. “Strange noises have never been heard at the home. “The fact that I am matron of a rest home has been mentioned before but as to exactly where it is, well, that hasn’t.” Three weeks ago Mrs. Bone was appointed publicity officer for the witches of Southern England. There are about 600 witches in the country. “We have a little meeting in this room in which we form a circle and when that is made we find out whether there is any work to do in which we can help other people,” said Mrs. Bone. “Our basic principles are fundamentally the same as the principles of any other religion. “We have a Divine Creator or Life Source. We believe in reincarnation.” Mrs. Bone became a witch because she “had a leaning towards the old religion.” On Tuesday millions of viewers in the North of England saw Mrs. Bone on Granada TV’s “Scene at 6.30,” a programme which spotlights people of interest.