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Story #2:
Heading south towards Warslow from the village of Longnor in the Staffordshire Peak District, you travel along what is initially a very straight section of road (now part of the B5053). Soon after leaving the village you reach a small bridge which crosses the river Manifold. My dad was a little older here – and what made it stick in his memory even more than it might was that it took place on his first ever ride in a motor car (he’d been in motorised vehicles before, but never a domestic one). The vehicle was open topped, and it was a fine sunny day. As they approached the bridge, but still at some distance, my father saw very distinctly a lady in light coloured clothes (yes, another one) standing in the road in the middle of the bridge. As the vehicle approached she moved to the side and stood up against the low wall, smiling at the occupants of the vehicle as the car passed by. My dad looked at her as they are passed, blinked…and she was gone. When he asked the other people in the car if they had seen the lady, they had no idea what he was talking about - no-one else had seen her, despite the fact that a car passing a person on this bridge would probably be less than six feet away from them.
Notes: I have a vague recollection of hearing at least one other ghost story associated with this bridge, but cannot recall any details or find anything online. There is one story which might be relevant - if, that is, it hadn’t been attributed to the wrong Longnor: white ladies and water appear in both – but the source I’ve found concerns the Shropshire rather than Staffordshire Longnor and others appear to have conflated the two. I got quite excited when I read Rob Gandy’s article in the latest FT (389) - it includes an experience with similar elements in an unknown location, which it is within the realms of possibility could have been here – but other aspects of the tale do not really fit.
Heading south towards Warslow from the village of Longnor in the Staffordshire Peak District, you travel along what is initially a very straight section of road (now part of the B5053). Soon after leaving the village you reach a small bridge which crosses the river Manifold. My dad was a little older here – and what made it stick in his memory even more than it might was that it took place on his first ever ride in a motor car (he’d been in motorised vehicles before, but never a domestic one). The vehicle was open topped, and it was a fine sunny day. As they approached the bridge, but still at some distance, my father saw very distinctly a lady in light coloured clothes (yes, another one) standing in the road in the middle of the bridge. As the vehicle approached she moved to the side and stood up against the low wall, smiling at the occupants of the vehicle as the car passed by. My dad looked at her as they are passed, blinked…and she was gone. When he asked the other people in the car if they had seen the lady, they had no idea what he was talking about - no-one else had seen her, despite the fact that a car passing a person on this bridge would probably be less than six feet away from them.
Notes: I have a vague recollection of hearing at least one other ghost story associated with this bridge, but cannot recall any details or find anything online. There is one story which might be relevant - if, that is, it hadn’t been attributed to the wrong Longnor: white ladies and water appear in both – but the source I’ve found concerns the Shropshire rather than Staffordshire Longnor and others appear to have conflated the two. I got quite excited when I read Rob Gandy’s article in the latest FT (389) - it includes an experience with similar elements in an unknown location, which it is within the realms of possibility could have been here – but other aspects of the tale do not really fit.
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