According to a report in the local press on Christmas Day 1951, Mr B Murray of the Tower House Preparatory School, Little Burstead, otherwise known as Hope House, heard the ship’s bell peal at noon while no one was in the house.

 

A few days later he heard noises of ‘walking about outside’, but there was no one in sight.

 

A piano played itself without any one touching it.

 

The Manifestations, he declared, were authentic. The house is 300 years old and the legend is that a former occupier of nearby Stockwell Hall exercised his dogs in the school grounds.