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Haunted Pub Crawl - The Peverill of the Peak and The Shakespeare, Manchester
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We listen to tales of the only detached pub in Manchester which has hauntings and a lanlady who has overseen the pub for over 50 years. We then visit The Shakespeare where Ash tells us about how its moved from Chester and brought along some spooky guests.
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Transcript
Technical Difficulties with Ash's Microphone
00:00:07
Speaker
Hello and welcome to another episode of haunted pub crawl. How are you doing Ash? How are you doing? Great, my microphone's broke so I'm using this weird little handheld camcorder mic that I found. It sounds okay now so I don't know even when you're twisting it around it sounded okay.
00:00:30
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see how it goes. Yeah, broken mic just as we're about to start recording. Always away, always away.
Launch of 'Paranormal United States' Book
00:00:41
Speaker
So we're on another episode of Haunted Purple and following the recent launch
00:00:52
Speaker
of our book, Paranormal United States, available at Amazon, Amazon Next Day Delivery as well, which is mental somehow. And SignCup is available through our website, pursuit of paranormal.co.uk, forward slash shop. Should do its own page really, forward slash book. So hot on the press, hot off the press, hot on the press, hot on the follow up of the book,
00:01:22
Speaker
We've got another one underway, so more details will be coming out soon. One of a few planned this year, so... Yeah. We do, we do. Good stuff. Always forward, never backwards, that's it. We gotta keep on pushing. Always keep on pushing, is it? Yeah, yeah. That's one thing people can't say about us. We're not busy, we're busy all the time.
00:01:50
Speaker
Very busy all the time. I know, I saw that on Facebook. Lancashire, how far is that far away from you? Well technically, I mean Greater Manchester kind of enveloped some of Lancashire, some of Cheshire. And where we're going is kind of Greater Manchester slash Lancashire.
00:02:13
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Wiggin which is like yeah kind of so great Manchester so it's not 40 minutes Wow so this is actually going to be released shortly after we record it so anybody who's up for Skywatch in Lancashire
00:02:32
Speaker
Hello. Yeah. UFO identified page. You'll be on our podcast page. I'm sure it's been shared on there. If not, it will be. Get yourself over. It's lovely weather. It's out there. And so, yeah. Well, I copied of the book in the card.
The Haunted Peverell of the Peak
00:02:49
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Oh, yeah. Nice one. I signed it there.
00:02:54
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And then you can get a photo for your certificate of authenticity. Yeah, to say it has been. Anyway, so before we do that, we've got. Well, I'm going to a pub.
00:03:10
Speaker
in Greater Manchester, weirdly. And I think it's actually in Manchester. I don't know Greater Manchester or Manchester, to be fair. This one is called, let me bring up the picture at the same time, the Peverell of the Peak. And it is one of the only detached pubs
00:03:37
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in the UK. You can walk all the way around it. Due to the modernisation around here and here, the pubs have been left alone and I will tell you which road it sits on because it's quite an interesting one. It's
00:04:03
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I can't even find where it is now. But it's essentially, it's everywhere else is offices and apartment blocks around it. And it is one of the only original surrounding buildings in the area. And it's around 180 years old. And it's also home too. You'll never guess this. Ghosts. Ghosts, yeah. And the oldest
00:04:32
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and longest serving landlord, one of, to be fair. She's been running it for over 50 years. Jeez. Yeah. So. She's seen a few things in her time, down the bar. Yeah, she's had, they filmed Cracker, their silent witness has been filmed there.
00:04:57
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all those kinds of Robbie Coltrane stuff and loads of people have sort of frequented the pub over the years. Lots of famous people, TV programs, whatnot. And Nancy Swanwick is the surviving landlady, should we say. And so she's been running for 50 years. Guess how old she is?
00:05:30
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85 93 nearly so yeah so we have got some stories ghostly stories
00:05:43
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There was a brewery boss who wanted to turn the Pev, as it's called, into a themed pub with plastic palm trees, both quite scary, paranormal, and palm trees. But thankfully, that was a brewery, never got their way. So it still stays as, almost as I said, Kat, the 70s, to be fair.
00:06:10
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It hasn't always been the charming, friendly little watering hole, as we can see now. In fact, it used to have quite a rough reputation. During the Second World War, the pub was frequently used as a brothel by GIs. When Nancy and her husband took over in the 70s, he initially said she didn't want anything to do with it.
00:06:32
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You'd get lads coming straight in from work and not leaving until they'd spent their wages and had a punch up, she remembers. So, I don't know if I'd want to go there, but reportedly in its early years, some of the pub's biggest customers were factory blokes on their lunch who had knocked back three pints and a pie without blinking and head straight back to work. So,
00:07:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's got an antique table football machine, original and the original bowel pushes that customers use once for summoning the staff to order drinks. Has got celebrity clean on towers I mentioned. Let's see, we've got Eric Canton has been there.
00:07:21
Speaker
As I mentioned, we've had Cracker and Robbie Coltrane has been in there, but there is a very strange guest that hasn't gone away. Pup is rumoured to be one of the most haunted perhaps in Manchester, obviously. Obviously a number of ghost stories associated with it. So we've got the haunting of the pianist.
Ghostly Tales at the Peverell of the Peak
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One of the well-known famous ghost stories from the Peverell of the Peak involves a pianist who is said to haunt the pub. According to the story, a pianist died suddenly whilst playing the piano in the pub. Since then, patrons and staff have reported hearing ghostly piano music coming from the direction of a locked and empty room where the piano is kept. Some witnesses claim to have seen the keys moving on their own as if being played by invisible hands.
00:08:18
Speaker
Another ghostly tear. Go on, sorry. That would be creepy to hear the piano playing. Yeah. Yeah. With no one in the room. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To see it moving as well. You'd probably think at that point, though, that it was some kind of automatic thing. Do you know what I mean? Oh, one of those. Like self playing. Yeah. Yeah. Like in air bars and stuff you've seen sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. So it could be that. But yeah.
00:08:47
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piano playing on its own, especially if you're locking up for the night, it'd be a bit random. We've also got another ghostly tale, that of a Victorian era woman dressed in white. They always wear white or grey or
00:09:04
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So she's been seen walking through the pub's corridors and rooms, often disappearing through walls or into thin air. Some accounts suggest that she might be connected to pub's history or former resident of the building. She could be one of the laders of the night potentially.
00:09:22
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But there have been reported poltergeist-like activity. Objects moving on their own, sudden temperature drops and unexplained noises have been experienced by both staff and visitors. Glasses and bottles are said to move off the shelves without any apparent cause. And also there's a report of some of the glasses lifting up, levitating to where the dishwasher is and just dropping by the dishwasher. So, I don't know.
00:09:52
Speaker
Bit of a crap way for me to open a dishwasher, then drop it in the dishwasher. But yeah, so only a very quick tour of this pub, but as you can see, it looks rather weird. It does look a little bit out of place. The landlady is 93 and she, although she's taken a step back now, she's actually been at the helm for over 50 years, which is pretty incredible. And yeah, that's the pebble of the peak in Manchester.
00:10:23
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Nice one, nice one. When the locks wake, just seen kind of central Manchester. Yeah. Flows those types of the flats you can see behind. Yeah. And that's some of the tower blocks, hotels behind it as well. Just, yeah. Just visible. I did that a second ago. I can tell you where it is. It's near
00:10:49
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near Market Street and Peacock Coach Office on Market Street when the pub opened in 1830. Yeah. And it's a great two-listed building since 1988. I'll find it at 127 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1. If that means anything to you. M1 is a centre, so yeah.
00:11:17
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Yeah, M1's got a beast in there, isn't it? Cool. Check it out, peeps. And let me get rid of that pub. So we've had some iPod. We are in Central Manchester. Awesome. And I think you might like this one. So I'm actually going to show you the picture and see what it reminds you of.
00:11:47
Speaker
It's funny you say that because I nearly picked this pub to research. One thing people don't realise, we don't actually, until we get on this episode to record it, we don't know which pubs we're both doing. And that was one of the pubs I nearly went for, because I thought, I know what that looks like, how is that? And then I had to check to see if it was that pub. I was thinking, is that my haunted hotel? Yieldy King's head.
00:12:17
Speaker
It's not, it's very similar style. And it's not in Chester. One of these weeks we are going to get off to the same pub and then one of us will be stuck up to talk about ourselves. Why do you think I'll go first on all these episodes?
The Shakespeare Pub's Haunting History
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So this is actually the Shakespeare
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And it's on Fountain Street in Manchester. And it's obviously got this old floor tanks in the picture, old, I think it's Tudor style, the sort of white panels with the black beams outside. The building was created in 1923. However, much of the building is a lot older and actually came from elsewhere.
00:13:13
Speaker
So it seems to look like the yoking's head in Chester. And that's because this pub actually began in Chester. It's originally built in Chester in 1656. And then, so 40 miles of Manchester is Chester to take away the man. And it's one of Manchester's oldest and most historic.
00:13:44
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And it's obviously iconic black and white timber. William Shakespeare. So I'm seeing this picture. Yeah, just up in the top corner behind your head. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. You can also see it on the like the hanging doodah sign. So, yeah, so it was originally known as the shambles pop in Chester.
00:14:09
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where it stood for 272 years. Before in 1928, it began moving to Manchester. The house literally moved house to Manchester. And then it was rebuilt in.
00:14:29
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Fountain Street, each element of the pub had to be dismantled and transported. It was a mammoth task that took quite a while. I'm not sure why, maybe someone bought it and wanted to move it to Manchester or something. Not totally sure why, but yeah, 1928, it was moved from Chester to Manchester. Many of the original parts came and yeah, who then became known as the Shakespeare.
00:14:56
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And it's built next to rebuilt, I guess, next to the iconic John Lewis department store, which is now Primark in Manchester. So here where Primark is, you'll be able to find this pump next to it. And although some elements of the pub are new, most of the 17th century parts were used, some of the carvings and over-tech developments were all moved over with it. And not only that,
00:15:24
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some of his infamous ghosts also came. Lovely. So they travelled with the pub from Chester to Manchester. There's a plaque outside which details the pub's history including the ghostly figures who lurked within. It explains that the ghost of a girl who died at the pub over 100 years ago and a chef haunting the building
00:15:51
Speaker
Well, there's different versions of this story. So one of them is that the girl who's responsible for lighting the candles in the Shakespeare, or the shambles as it was then, accidentally set a fire to herself, resulting in her death. Okay. The other version of the story is that the girl was actually attacked and raped by the chef at the time, and he was hanged from a beam inside the pub.
00:16:19
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and his spirit is said to have never left. And apparently the rope mark is still visible on the beam. And I did get a picture. When I first looked at this pub a few weeks ago, I did see a picture and you can see what looks like a rope mark around this beam. That's like on, fingers me a staircase. Yeah, but I'm trying to find it this week. I was just going to find it, but I have seen that picture. One of the most prominent ghosts is that of William, the ghost of former landlord.
00:16:50
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who is upset as he feels that his story has not been told. Oh. So he's lingering in the afterlife, feeling a bit grieved. There's been instances of his thoughts that's been heard and even apparition of him sitting in the chest to feel sweet. And there's even apparently been a photo of him caught showing a tall figure with a bald head.
00:17:15
Speaker
I love that. Yeah, I thought of you when I read that. Thank you. Remember the staff that works there today says that they still have occurrences of drinks inexplicably moving and falling off tables, believed to be caused by William, the former landlord. There's also a rude spirit in the building who dislikes women. This spirit appears as a floating head
00:17:45
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And talks disrespectfully to women. And he floats through the ceiling, mainly near a bar area, to scare the drinkers who were there at the time. So a few ghosts there in this pub that used to be in Chester and is now in Manchester. And it's over 400 years old.
00:18:09
Speaker
I wonder if it might move somewhere else in the future. Maybe, maybe. Wow. I've been on like the paranormal investigations we've been on, a place that looks very similar to that. So obviously it's sort of a similar kind of history, I expect. Can you imagine like this head just floating past shouting,
00:18:36
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It's almost like some kind of weird comedy horror thing, isn't it? Yes, you're out! But only... Yeah, warm fuck off. Now I'm on top.
00:18:53
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Yeah, very strange, very strange. Cool looking building though. It's a cool looking building. Now we've been to the other pub that looks like this. I can imagine it's quite squeaky upstairs and creaky. Low ceilings. Yeah, exposed beams, that kind of stuff. Yeah, but yeah, cool. Probably the cool backstory to that one. Yeah, yeah, I like that.
00:19:20
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and a headless, well, a bodyless ghost. I like that one. I've got to write my game for next week then.
Preview of Ash's Skywatch Event
00:19:34
Speaker
Oh, so thanks for joining us on this week's episode and join Ash later.
00:19:40
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Skywatch. For Skywatch head over to our page and ufiidentified.co.uk page on Facebook and get all the details there. Bang on. See you later. Bye.