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In the 1950s, Victorian pennies were quite common.  When I delivered milk at weekends while still at school, farthings were still in use, with some half pints priced at 3 3/4 d.  When I much later re-visited the large Victorian house my parents had run as a guest house but had been turned into flats, one of the tenants asked me if I had seen the ghost when living there as a child.  Someone had reported seeing a woman.  When I was living there, the wife of a couple who rented the old grooms' flat above the stables had killed herself by putting her head in the gas oven.  We knew of no other traumatic deaths associated with the house that had been built in 1880.