In a house in Thrift Street South Shields a servant girl on her way down to the cellar one night was shocked and amazed to see what she called an ancient lady. The lady asked the servant girl to return the following night and she would hear something to her advantage, if she returned without her candle.
The next night the servant girl decided to return to the cellar, but she still took her candle for safety. When the girl got to the cellar the lady told her that if she had not brought the candle she would have told her such a tale.
However because the girl had returned that night as asked, the lady decided to give the girl something anyway. The servant girl was told to put her hand into a certain crack in the wall, and as she did this she found a purse full of money along with the deeds to the house. What happened to the deeds to the house is not known but the servant girl left her job took the purse full of money and became a grand lady for the rest of her life.
