Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
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that so many English castles and
manor houses are being torn down or sold at
auction to plebeian newcomers?
This question is deeply agitating the Brit
ish Society for Psychical Research, which has
long been engaged in the scientific investiga-
ton of such old and well established family
ghosts. In the breaking up of famous old
English estates it sees the end of valuable
source of material. The ghosts, it believes,
will disappear after the castles or manors
have changed hands and undergone elabo-
rate remodeling.
Family GHOSTS says one authority on
the subject, "are by no means of wandering
disposition. Having established a reputation
by haunting one particular house, they stay
there. Some ghosts, as ancient family leg
ends inform us, have haunted one house fer
centuries, never appearing anywhere else.
"And now that such haunted houses are
being auctioned, sold and torn down, what
will the poor ghosts do? They may find new
homes to haunt-modern skyscrapers, apart
ment houses and freshly painted green and
pink studios-but there will not be any
secret passages in which to clank chains nor
ivy-clad turrets to parade around, and no mys-
terious windows to fit across in the moon
light. Furthermore, with the going of the
houses will go the traditions which served to
keep the ghosts encouraged and inspired.
"Take the case of Windsor CASTLE, con-
tinues this authority, (which has housed sew
eral prominent ghosts, including Queen Bess
! herself. 1t was an officer of the Grenadier
Guards who first saw the phantom of Queen
Elizabeth twenty to thirty years ago. He de-
clared it suddenly appeared and glided along
in front of him, vanishing through certain
part of the wall in room at the end OF the
corridor Investigation showed that three CEN
turtles before there had been a door, since
sealed, at that very spot.
"That is the structure where the ghosts
Of hI1f hon nj Dj1nh Of
Cleveland, the saucy-tongued Duchess Of MAJ
arin and the unhappy Catherine Howard,
slain by Henry VIII, are said to have been
seen. The last named woman, it was re-
ported by alleged witnesses, ran through the
corridor hair streaming behind, as she did
one day when she escaped from her guards
and rushed in to beg for her life from her
royal husband.
what would happen to these ghosts If
Windsor castle is torn down to make room
for modern industrial expansion?"
Passing of the Manor
Englands early history, including many
items CHASTITY enough to found whole race
of ghosts, was practically written around
events which happened in the castles and
manors which have been recently sold. An
English periodical lists the following historic
estates which have changed hands since the
war: Pembroke, ''the cradle of the Tudors,' -
where the first Tudor was born; Fineshade
IADU6y, Ill DullC partly OL
stone taken from the hall where Mary, Queen
of Scots was executed; St. Osyth's priory
in Essex, erected in the early part of the
twelfth century; Abbey House, Abingdon,
and the Sutton Courtenay Manor, where the
first trent kick against pro1teering land
lords was voiced by tenants; Quenby House
in Leicestershire, where Stilton cheese was
first made; the Stoke Park estate, home of
John Penn, where the monument to the
poet Gray was erected; Snowre Hall where,
Charles I found asylum for few days, prob
ably the pla"e described by Dumas in his
D'Artagnan romances; Oldham Cactle, where
David Bruce was taken prisoner in 1916, and
the old Castle of Skenfrith
The Duke of Devonshire recently sold
Devonshire House in the very fashionable
Park Lane, London. and it is reported that
the old place will be torn down to make way
for modern hotel. Equally historic town
and country places have been abandoned Cat
high price, by the Dukes of Westminster,
Rutland, Marlborough, Grafton and Buc-
cleuth, Lords Beaconfield, Londesborough
Portman and Camden, the Earls of Denbigh
and Harrington, and many other noblemen
In 1920 one firm of auctioneers, alone sold
349, 695 acres of country property, and this
year thousands of acres Of old estates are
being sold weekly.
The reason for this widespread partition
of the huge country estates is best explained