Now, one of the former assistant managers has told of the ghost of a young girl haunting the stairs after she was killed in front of the former family home of Abraham Guest.

Mark Leader from Liverpool said: "In the early 70s my wife and I worked as assistant managers at The Mount – then a Chef & Brewer restaurant.

"One morning we both arrived at work and up the stairs walked a girl in a summer dress.
"She passed us and went into what then was the ladies toilets on the ground floor.

"It was a February morning and it was raining heavily.
"Only the cleaning staff were in and I checked if any had brought a child to work.

"None had and it became quite a talking point. My wife was convinced we'd seen a ghost.
"A few weeks later two nuns came in and asked to speak to us about what we had seen.

"We told them and they told us a little girl lived in the house and was knocked down by a tram in front of the house and killed. They told us the year, I think it was early 1900s.

"The ladies toilet the little girl walked into was the child's playroom."

Do you know anything of the history of The Mount? Have you ever experienced anything ghostly?

Email weird Wigan at david.taylor@ lancspublications.co.uk