George

According to Les Durrant’s Once Upon a Time in Poynton, the village where I am staying with family, there is a ghost at number 100 Park Lane. Once it was a tobacconist ( 1910-1950s) and footsteps could be heard upstairs and the noise of heavy weights being moved in the cigarette store room. There is also a smell of cigarette smoke downstairs. Mr Pearson, the tobacconist in 1950, called it George, so it is not his ghost.It is also mischievous and hides things, or manifests itself as a cold sensation in the room. The shop is now an opticians, with a hair and beauty salon upstairs. George was quite adventurous as he often appeared next door as well. I will have to find a reason to go in and see if I can sense anything.