2-699-187 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Ghost's House in Cock Lane', c1872. During the 1760s there were knockings and scratchings and other strange goings-on at the house between Newgate Street and West Smithfield in the City of London. The spirit of 'Scratching Fanny' was said to have haunted the house. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]