Winter at The Grapes Inn. Bishops Waltham 1941.
Funeral of George Ivamy, Landlord of The Grapes Inn, also Grandfather of my wife. My wife having been born in 1925 was 16 years old when she attended her grandfathers funeral with her parents in 1941.
The coffin being kept in the Grapes Inn on the ground floor. My wife and her parents were staying there overnight to attend the funeral the following day. They all had their own rooms.
After retiring to their beds my wife found that she could not settle down to sleep. After a while as she was laying there she happened to glance up at the bedroom door, which had been left open. Standing perfectly still in the doorway was her grandfather. This unnerved her so she kept quiet, got out of bed and edged her way round the walls of the room until she got to the doorway. Keeping close to the doorframe she edged her way passed him looking up at him as she did so. She then ran to her parents room where needless to say she slept in their bed for the rest of the night.