>**Reverend Joseph Noel Thomas Boston**, a Norfolk vicar and local historian born in Elmdon, Warwickshire, on 24 December 1910 and died 16 July 1966. >Boston wrote a few ghost stories in the early 1950s which were privately printed in booklet form (by G. Arthur Coleby of Dercham in 1954) under the title *Yesterday Knocks*. Most of his tales were reprinted 1960-1962 in various issues of *Supernatural Stories* magazine under the pseudonyms **Noel Bartram** and **Noel Bertram**.