Jon’s Fish Bar, Wilmslow

In 1970, Jon’s Fish Bar on Hawthorn Street, Wilmslow, was at the centre of a local haunting. Manager Ted Mannion fled his flat above the shop after hearing footsteps, a door opening and closing, and a moving handle in the early hours. Police found no intruder. Soon after, others recalled eerie experiences nearby, including a boyhood sighting of a woman in white and a later hanging in the same vicinity. The case drew press attention and even young “ghost hunters” who spent a night in the flat, reporting only an eerie atmosphere and faint voices.