50 Berkeley Square London W1J 5BA.
This four-storey London townhouse built around the 1740’s has quite a reputation, back in 1840 its was said to be haunted with a maid driven mad by the haunting of a ghost! Sir Robert Warboys took upon a dare to spend a night in the haunted house believing such nonsense to be poppycock. That night despite the warnings of the landlord he was insistent to address the task in hand. The landlord reluctantly agreed but stipulated that he must have a pistol and ring the bell cord should he encounter any eerie entities.
Forty-five minutes after the witching hour, The landlord was awoken with the bell from the cord vigorously ringing, and then a single gun shot could be heard. Sir Robert’s motionless body lay in the corner of the haunted room the pistol still smoking from the shot fired. Sir Robert had apparently died of traumatic Shock, his eyes bulging and lips curled back over clenched teeth.
One night two sailors who had been out on the town found that the premises were empty and for let. They took upon the opportunity to break in for a nights rest. Unfortunately, they chose the haunted room. During the night an ominous spectral figure burst forth into the room a struggle ensued with one of the sailors taking flight, later the body of the other was discovered in the basement his neck broken and the look of shear horror on his face. In 1840’s nearby occupants reported strange sounds of bumping, thumping and dragging with the servant bells ringing aloud. When one of the neighbours took courage and entered the house, there was no one there? The bells were still vibrating upon their hooks.
Other sightings include that of a little girl sat on the stairs and in more recent years in 1937 the house was unoccupied but a figure was seen at the window dressed in an old fashioned way. In 2001, it was said that a form dashed a pair of spectacles from the face of a visitor. Today late at night if you walk by you might just get a feeling that something lurks behind the windows.
The building is occupied today by Maggs Rare books and I would like to thank them for the tour tool on their site. You can view inside the shop and the exterior of 50 Berkley Square and see for your self. View Maggs Book Shop
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