GHOST LOSES HOME

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 238, 28 December 1927, Page 12

GHOST LOSES HOME

SALE OF KIDDALL HALL • RELIC OF OLD TIMES Kiddall Hall, reputed to have W« built in the twelfth century. being pulled down, packed up, and - to Scotland. This being so, the of John Ellis, murdered by the 11011X1 head followers of Fairfax, is P®*. of residence unless it goes north. too. The foreman in charge, a Londoner, says: “We shall see- ■ The place, which was known in 3 gone by as Kidd Hall, is a cbarW old farmhouse which stands ou .. north side of the road from keen* Tadcaster, about two mijes from croft. art Its new- owner and its destination kept a close secret by the firm ma ’ * the removal. For all that, good lish people and antiquarians kindly disposed to this anonymous P chaser for saving this fine build"** Britain. Every stone which has an impo position has been marked, so neip when the building is being re-er *-T. for they will all be placed in the sa**relative position in Scotland as were in Yorkshire. The stonework is in excellent cownw*. There was a very beautif/l window attached to the building, this has been removed to Lonao safe keeping. On it ran a scrip tion which, translated, “Pray for the good estate of Thos. • and his wife, Anna, who made this dow, 1300.’* . e { The hall was in the possessi te the Ellis family from the tJ jjT tee n f o r the eighteenth century. The tunate John who was murd e Js in th* a staunch Royalist. Everybody village has heard of the ghost, one has ever seen it. a Another tale that centres rou hall is that Dick Turpin onc ® oB e? into it and stole a large sum oi Ij that had been collected taxes from the people ,si3s* Ls— *