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October
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Welcome
to Halloween Ilkeston Special Issue - Past Articles
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In
the Spotlight -
Real
Monsters of Halloween
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Primrose Ghost
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GRACEFUL lady ghost wearing a mid nineteenth century ankle
length gown is haunting a small back street factory at
Cotmanhay.
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Workers at Denleen Separates Limited on the top floor of the 100-year-old Beardsley factory at Primrose Street often hear their lady ghost open a door on the ground floor and climb the wooden Staircase to the offices. But only two people have ever seen the ghost; one a .woman worker, who has since left toe firm, saw the lady in grey six months ago, and machinist Linda Skeath saw the ghost on Tuesday.
Linda arrived for work at her usual time and as she turned the lights on in the main machine room, something caught her eye. She spun round to see a woman dressed, in. a long grey dress, racing across the room towards the staircase.
Linda recalled: "I couldn't see her face it was just a blur but her dress was very clear." She chased after 'the woman, who she thought was a customer.
But when Linda turned the corner the staircase was empty and the door at the bottom was shut.
"I was so shocked, I thought I was going to faint. I just couldn't believe what I’d seen. It's the first ghost I've ever seen, and I hope it's the last."Managing director Dennis Whitworth arrived a short while later and gave Linda a glass of brandy.
Although Mr. Whitworth sympathizes with Linda Skeath and agrees that "it must have been
Quite a shock," we suspect he is secretly quite proud of having a ghost ill his factory.
"I wish I'd seen it. I often sit quietly in. my office and hope it will drift by, but it never does."
Mr. Whitworth says he often hears the bottom door open and the sound of footsteps up the stairs. Sometimes he goes to see who it is, but there is never anyone there.After Tuesday’s incident, he decided to make some inquiries; about the ghost.
"One thing I couldn't under stand was why the figure should appear in a particular corner of the room and then move towards the stairs," he said
Perhaps a clue to the mystery is that when the factory was built in 1866 there was a tiny office in that particular corner of the room, but there have not been any tragic deaths on the site or known murders, or incidents that could be linked with ghosts.
Mr. Whitworth may not have seen a ghost but he has seen a flying saucer.
"It was one October night some years ago. I saw this disc of light travelling across the sky. I dashed
inside to tell my wife and it had gone when I got back."
Mr. Whitworth says he was in the B.A.P. for a number of years and was able to distinguish different aircraft. "And that was no aircraft. It was travelling at thousands of miles an hour. I saw it and there were reports in the papers the s next day. But who believes- you?
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Lady
of the Woods
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Prayers
at Ghost House
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Cottage holds strange secrets...
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Last
report 1983
Kirkhallam
has not been left out as it has its own spooks, apart
from the Dale abbey reports, there have been reports of
a ghost of a white lady seen in the Ladywood woods, locally
known as White lady Woods - Ladywood road -
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Family
Terrorised in home by ghost
A
family on Coppice Avenue Ilkeston have been afraid to go
into there Kitchen and bedrooms alone due to a Mischievous
spirit. Activities include. Phantom door bell and knock
on door, doors held back or shut, voices and cries,
moving objects and shadowy figures
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Last
report 1986
Two
clergymen have said prayers at the home of an Ilkeston
Disabled woman who claims she is being haunted by a
playful spirit. She's afraid to go into her main bedroom
alone at her home on Ebenezer Street as the spectre of
an elderly man appears at her bed
Other
strange spooky going on include Horses brass and
ornaments being scatterd on the living room floor
Bathroom
mirror moving from sink to floor
Lights
going on and off and cutlery being spread out on the
Kitchen floor
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JUNE 30, 1988
THOSE with a nervous disposition should take great care when waking by Ivy Cottage on Church Street, Eastwood, because this picturesque dwelling is said to have at least three ghostly inhabitants.
When David Kinton and his family moved into the cottage they had no idea about their guests from beyond the grave, but within a week they began to suspect that the sound of footsteps in upstairs rooms
couldn't just be the creaking of the century old timbers. The first of Dave's ghostly guests is a hooded Monk whose remains are believed to be buried within a vast grave in his garden. Dave's theory is that people in the holy orders would rest on their way to Codnor Castle.. More
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| MOST
HAUNTED HOUSES - THE
LIST |
>> Every
month we feature a Haunted Place This month -
Ilkeston Own Amityville - Hawthorn House |
September 1982
NEARLY a century ago, so local legend has it, a man named Hugh Crane had a house built at 1 Derby Street, Ilkeston.
It was a detached house which stood on the hill just a few hundred yards from the town centre.
He called it Hill House and moved in with his young wife. Little is known of Mr. Crane, but the legacy he left Ilkeston will be spoken of for many, many years. It is' believed that tragedy first struck when his wife was killed in a coaching accident outside the front door of the house.
He re-married, but his second wife, we're told, was killed when she fell down the stairs.
Crane married again. But it is said that his third wife out lived him only to die at the hands of a knifeman inside the house. Since then the locals have lived in fear of the house which was renamed, Hawthorne House.
Forty years ago five men and a woman went inside to try to cure the deathly air. The woman died during the attempt. A few years ago, as a relief road for the town was planned, the house was purchased by Derbyshire County Council. They intend to demolish it when the road is finally built, but have been letting it to tenants.
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SCALA
Spooks
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FOLLOWING the revelations of a haunting at Ilkeston's JD
Cafe Bar on South Street, another old building is set to
have its history examined for spooks.
After taking her mother's memoirs away to write a book on
her maiden name, Bronwyn Hayes of Brinsley found journals
written by her mother detailing scary sights at the Scala
Cinema on Pimlico more
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