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miðvikudagur, desember 08, 2004
The Kings Head
Draugagangur a uppahaldspubbnum okkar Maju her i Guildford!
Edalgamall pub i midbaenum sem vid forum oft a bara tvo eda thegar gestir koma i heimsokn.
Her ma sja okkur Frex og Ola Jo a sama pub.
Og pubbinn.
Fann svo thennan texta a netinu.
Her er draugagangnum lyst.
"The King?s Head is quite probably the most haunted building in Guildford.
The original pub stood adjacent to the current one, in a building which still exists across a narrow road. However, by the end of the 1700s it was found this building was too small for the growing trade so the pub decamped to the current building, which was built in the early 1600?s and overlies a corner of Guildford?s Norman castle.
Surprisingly, there aren?t many historical stories linked to the site at all, and in fact it seems that everything blew up as recently as the 1980s. During World War II a Canadian serviceman, who was stationed nearby, was shot dead on the pavement outside the pub by a local man with whose wife, it was said, he was having an affair. Whether he has anything to do with the strange goings-on inside, however, is another matter.
In the past, and when the pub had a far rougher reputation than it?s current cordial one, landlords came and went with alarming frequency. During the mid-1980s the outgoing landlord told the incoming one that he felt there was something unusual about the pub; he felt perhaps it might be haunted. The head barman, who was staying behind, laughed. He said he?d worked there for some years and he?d never seen or heard anything of the sort. In 1987, though, he was to eat those words. Whilst calling time at the bar one night he suddenly froze and stared at the opposite wail. One of the locals asked him what was wrong and, pointing to the wall, the barman said ?She?s over there by the beam! Can?t you see her??. When the locals had managed to calm him down, he said that what he?d seen was the ghost of an old lady staring back at him, grey and indistinct. And then things really got underway.
Shortly afterwards an internal door flew open with a bang and the pub dog went berserk. On numerous occasions the dog was found sitting on the floor barking at a spot in the wall where a blocked-up doorway used to lead down to the cellar. In the cellar itself, to this day, there have been many occasions when members of staff have been called down by a female voice summoning them by name, yet every time they get downstairs they find it deserted.
There is also a strange legend connected to the pub that says if ever there is any unpleasantness or disturbance there then electrical items and the plumbing will start to break down, yet as soon as anyone arrives to fix them they begin to work again. No more was this put to the test than in February 1995 when in the early hours of the morning the ceiling of the bar caved in, due in no small part to the old building having no foundations to speak of, and the deathwatch beetle in the timbers. The pub remained open throughout the repairs, and local archaeologists moved in. They found evidence of a mediaeval building beneath the current one, and signs that this had once been used as a cobbler?s shop. However, throughout the repairs the workmen would find their machinery would rarely function as it should. They would take it outside to inspect it and it would work properly again, only to stop once more when they took it back inside.
There is a new ghost in The King?s Head which has only started appearing in the last couple of years. Two members of staff have told me they have seen her themselves. A small girl they have named Mary, in a white Victorian dress, has been seen several times standing by the entrance before skipping through the bar and disappearing through the French windows into the beer garden. In recent years, a man has also been spotted periodically sitting at the corner table by the front window."
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Eg hef thetta i huga thegar eg fer naest a The Kings Head og fae mer pintu eda tvaer.
17:54
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