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Though Collins himself died three years later on, at the age of only thirty-nine, his theatre thrived and most of the fantastic names of songs corridor performed there at some position in their occupations. Gracie Fields produced her London debut at Collins in 1912. For several years the founder appeared unwilling to tear himself away from the theatre that bore his title and his ghost was regularly noticed in the places of work the place the day's takings have been counted. Collins was destroyed by fire in 1958 and never rebuilt. A branch of Waterstone's now stands on the site. nine. Lender of England Ghosts In 1933, for the duration of excavations linked to the rebuilding of the Bank, a coffin was unearthed in the outdated Garden Court. Seven-and-a-half ft long, the coffin belonged to a clerk at the Financial institution known as William Jenkins, who had died in 1798. Unusually tall for his time - he was over 6 foot 7 inches - Jenkins had been obsessed throughout his ultimate illness with the idea that human body-snatchers would seize his corpse for its curiosity price and sell it to surgeons for dissection. His pals persuaded the Bank's administrators that, as a long- serving staff, Jenkins deserved the Bank's protection put up mortem, and he was buried in the Yard Courtroom one morning before company started. Jenkins's tall ghost is even now said to wander the Bank's corridors. Outside the house the Lender, in Threadneedle Avenue, late-night passers-by have sometimes been confronted by a girl in early nineteenth-century costume inquiring whether or not they have witnessed her brother. This is the ghost identified as 'the Lender Nun'. In 1812 a clerk at the Bank referred to as Whitehead was tried out for forging a monthly bill and hanged. For 20-five many years following this, his sister Sarah, driven crazy by her brother's death, came each working day to the bank, convinced that he nonetheless worked there. She grew to become a acquainted sight to the lender workers, who dubbed her 'the Lender Nun' since of the lengthy black gown she constantly wore. Sarah Whitehead's ghost has also been noticed in Financial institution Underground station. ten. The Phantom Bus of Ladbroke Grove One particular of the longest-lasting city legends of west London tells of a ghostly bus that, in the mid-1930s, was frequently observed careering together the roadways of Ladbroke Grove in the early hrs of the morning. The bus was generally sighted at the junction of St Mark's Road and Cambridge Gardens and dozens of individuals claimed to have witnessed it. 'I was turning the corner,' 1 witness stated, 'and noticed a bus tearing in direction of me, the lights of the best and bottom decks and the headlights have been entire on but I could see no crew or travellers.' The junction, with a blind bend in equally instructions, had a popularity as an accident black location and, to begin with, the phantom bus only additional to this. A number of auto crashes ended up blamed on the shock motorists seasoned when seeing it. In depth

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