Ghosts Left Behind

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 205, 2 September 1935, Page 10

Ghosts Left Behind

3 HAUNTED MANSION MOVED i Through one of lh e most remarkable . house removing joos ever carried out. ■. two ghosts have been rendered houie- < less. They are the ghosts uf Duttou t Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire, a wonderful . Tudor mansion now no more, for it has ? been dismantled aud removed to East Grinstead, in Sussex, to form the new . east wing of Holinstall, the late Lord i Dewar’s residence, which is shortly to i be occupied by Mr J. A. Dewar, his ■ nephew. I Holmstall, with its magnificent racing I studs and beautiful rock gardens, was . inherited by “Lucky” Dewar, as he is known by reason of his turf successes, • three years ago along with a fortune ot j close on a million pounds. Ho decided . to extend the modest dimensions of the j house of his late uncle, and bought Dut- > I ton Hall for the purpose. J Bit by bit it has been transported to I Sussex and reassembled. But nothing • I has been seen of the ghosts—ono a J Roman soldier who, tradition declares, , used to gallop once a month across the Ipaddock in front of the house, spear i aloft; the other, a wraith-like being 1 that used to haunt the minstrel gallery | I’erhaps these phantom figures aro hiking the 300 miles between Runcorn and J East Grinsteatl in search ot’ their old