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BLUE BELL INN ;- OldburyBLUE BELL INN
Dudley Road East
Oldbury
Near Hartshill
Hereford and Worcester
It was discovered by Miss Harrison, daughter of Mrs. Foster the current licensee, that the original inn was some 200 years old and obviously a coaching house. Although none of the original buildings remains it is a pleasant pub and houses a lot of memories of the past and non-paying guest. Miss Harrison, a science student at Keele University, says that when her parents and herself moved in during May 1966, they learnt that the pub had a reputation of being haunted and one of the old regulars claimed he saw one man down the remains of his pint and walk through the wall. Little notice was taken of this report until she saw the face of a very old man peering through a `square glass window set in at eye-level in the old door`.
The time was 10.30 p.m. and all the customers had gone and the door locked so when the young girl went to `tell the old gent that he was too late` but found him gone, she was puzzled. She returned to wash up some more glasses and on turning back to the door saw the face of the old chap still peering at her. Mrs. Foster, the licensee's wife also saw the elderly gentleman and was as mystified as her daughter. Thinking it was, perhaps, a trick of the light, she moved the surrounding bottles, turned off and on all the lights and tried desperately to find a logical answer. A couple of customers who had remained in another bar were called upon in an attempt to explain the phenomena, but the face remained. One man ran outside, but finding no-one returned only to see the elderly features still peering at him through the glass. He fled into the night. For four nights this peculiar phenomena occurred and was noted by some nine witnesses. Concerning some of their signed statements, which I have seen, all seem to agree that the face that they saw was to quote Winifred Marshall 'that of an old man with a beard'and Ernie Groves of Theodore Close confirms this.
Most of the customers are convinced the mysterious figure is the ghost of ` one of the old customers who died some years ago` but he was - and remains friendly'. The only other phenomena experience was that of the inexplicable sound of footsteps heard by Mr. and Mrs. Foster one Sunday afternoon in 1975.
Another unusual incident occurred in 1970. On undressing for bed one night, the daughter noticed that her pet whippet was staring at something on the other side of the room and when she turned round the girl ` encountered a fairly large blue shape` confronting her. She dived under the bed clothes until hearing her mother ask why she was walking around the landing. She assured Mrs. Foster that far from walking outside her room, she had been shivering with fright under the bedclothes. Later she wondered if the object she had seen was a ball of lightening but realise that the weather 'had not been conductive to the build up of static electricity'. The incident remains unexplained, though Mrs. Gladys Edwards, a former licensee feels that the 'face at the window'is definitely that of William Parker. This gentleman 'a servant man who used the Inn years ago` was in the service of the Turton Family of Brades Hall. One night returning home from `supping a couple of pints` he was killed when a chimney fell on him
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