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Towards the entrance of Park
Lime Pits in Rushall stands the most attractive and ancient Manor Arms, a
most pleasant and outstanding Banks's public house, (without a bar [check it
out]) hosted by Shirley and Martin Wood. The
building has had a number of various uses through the ages from being a
mortuary in the Civil War to being a brothel in former times. It
is also said that the house has even been used by the eccalastical. It is of
no surprise then that the establishment wouldn't have a ghost story to tell.  Once
two old ladies lived there, however for some long lost reason one companion
suddenly departed leaving the other to fend for herself.One fateful day she
tumbled at the front entrance of the house and when she was eventually found,
she was no longer alive.
It
is believed by many of the regulars that it is her ghost which haunts the
pub. A former tennant saw another ghostly lady or more probably the same one,
on an evening after the pub had been closed. All the customers had left and
the light were switched off. As
he was ascending the stairs he saw the lady descending, dressed in white and
wearing a straw hat. The apparition caught him by surprise. Another
incident inside the cellar involved a head lady who was working there on the
barrels as a relief. Suddenly, without warning a large filter tray was thrown
across the cellar by an unknown force! Shirley
and Martin have never encountered any unnatural spirits since they started in
September 2000. Nonetheless, one bedroom does remain unbearably cold, even
when the heating inside is on full. The room will not be heated at all! On
many occasions, when Mrs. Wood is alone inside the premises, she goes all
goose pimply for no reason at all! One former employee there, a postman, said
that he would never venture into the attic while he was at work.
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