GHOSTS

This rich Elizabethan merchant's house, built around 1575, is now the Totnes Museum. When run as a tea shop, pre-1958, its owner maintained that it had two ghosts - a man and a woman.  And I gather from Bob Mann's excellent little book The Ghosts Of Totnes that just before the close of the 1992 season a teenaged boy ran down the stairs in 'a very shocked condition' after seeing a ghostly figure in the reconstructed Victorian grocer's shop - where someone else also said she was aware of a 'presence'.

Ghosts do seem to frequent Totnes, don't they? Maybe one of these days I'll see the ghost of Mary Wesley, who once lived just beyond my garden boundary.  If I do, I'll be sure to tell you!