I WAS interested to read your article "Spooked" in the Courier, October 30.

The Courier said "It was the first time anyone has reported a spectre at the building. I disagree with this as my mother Gladys Webster told my brother, sisters and myself a story of Raymond, the friendly ghost, many years ago.

My mother said that after the fire the picture house was renamed the Gaumont. A few years later it was turned into a bingo hall. My mother worked in the bingo hall as a runner (selling and checking) in and around 1967.

She told us that Raymond had been seen in an upstairs room and when the manager and staff went to investigate who was there and why, he was nowhere to be seen.

After that, sightings of Raymond walking about was seen many times but he was only seen upstairs, never downstairs.

If any of the staff had to go upstairs they always went in pairs, never alone. But the staff never feared him, he was a very friendly, happy ghost.

Steve Webster