Find out what the future holds, down the pub!

From the Bolton Evening News, first published Sunday 10th Sep 2006.

SOME claim to have had encounters with spirits from Ye Olde Man and Scythe's historic past.

Now regulars will be able to get in touch with the future, courtesy of clairvoyant Rose Marie.

As well as downing a barm cake with their beer, drinkers at Bolton's most historic pub, will also be able to peer into a crystal ball with pyschic Patricia.

And if that was not enough they will be able to see what the future holds for them with a Tarot card reading.

If they get bored with that then they can have their palm read or ask third psychic Christina to give a psychometry reading.

The Churchgate hostelry, reputed to be Britain's fourth oldest pub, is hosting an evening with three psychics in preparation for the opening of a new venture next door.

Licensee John Jewitt has acquired what used to be the Chinese restaurant and plans to open a shop called Ye Olde Wench and Trinkets. The Wench will not only sell jewellery, ceramics, candles and crystals, but also have a specialist corner for clairvoyants and their fans.

Rose Marie, an international clairvoyant, is working with John's wife Jaycee to create a pyschic centre in the shop.

Mr Jewitt said: "My wife is really into this and will be designing the shop and setting up the psychic corner.

"The pub is supposed to be haunted by a quite a few ghosts according to the TV ghost hunting folk. I've never seen anything myself but I have seen the orbs floating around when they filmed with infra-red cameras and that was very strange."

His research shows that for the first time in recorded history the businesses in the two historic buildings have the same owners.

"In Victorian times, number 12 was Smokey Joe's, a Temperance Bar, then in the 1940s a Coffee Bar, subsequently a restaurant, and now a shop - Ye Olde Wench & Trinkets."

The shop will open on September 15 with an official opening in October following the annual re-enactment of the beheading of the Earl of Derby on Saturday, October 15. The space between the shop and the pub will be revamped into a beer garden and be available for smokers when the no smoking ban is implemented next year.

In the process of opening the shop John Jewitt has unearthed a mystery.

The address of the Man & Scythe is numbers 6 and 8 Churchgate.

The address of the Wench & Trinkets is number 12 Churchgate. So where is number 10?

Perhaps the pyschics can tell him!

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