Thanks for that Tali!!!!
I did see a rather naff article about this matter in the Metro, but the article you've posted up is way better !!! Cheers !!!
We had an interesting investigation on Halloween night..... I've included the report below for your perusal:
Investigation Report: The Assembly Rooms – Tamworth - Staffordshire.
Date: Fri. 31st Oct. to Sat. 1st Nov. 2008
Duration of visit: Approx. 5.5 hours.
Attendee’s:
(W.M.G.C. Members) Steve Chew, Julie Badger, John Conway, Len Jackson and Nick Duffy. Also, Assembly Rooms staff member – ‘Jock’ – present in bar area of building throughout stay.
Investigation:
Group arrived at venue approx. 9 pm
Night began with a tour of the building – with emphasis being drawn to the allegedly haunted sections of the property (and the associated stories, etc) – led by Jock.
Places noted to be of particular interest were:
*Auditorium / main corridor: where the figure of an elderly man has supposedly been seen numerous times, exiting the auditorium (at the raised seating end doorway), walking into the corridor and then turning into the area of the gents toilets.
*Auditorium / Stage area: where lady in white clothing has been seen crossing the stage, descending into the auditorium and walking the length of the room, exiting area through door now covered by raised seating area (leading to front of building).
Footsteps have also been heard crossing the stage, both from the auditorium itself and in the room / office immediately under the stage. People in the latter mentioned areas have reported getting the impression that someone was in the building with them (when they knew the site to be otherwise empty) because of hearing footsteps above them, etc.
Cleaners Room: a small room situated off the left hand side of the stage where a past cleaner of the site reported having the sensation of being touched by something invisible. This activity continued for some while – over a period of time – until the woman concerned found herself being fondled on the bottom, at which point she refused to work in the building any longer and gave up her job there.
Gents toilets (near bar): people sitting in the bar area report having heard the gents toilet door opening, seemingly of it’s own volition.
Approximately 9.40 pm: The group ready themselves to set up kit for the forthcoming vigils / sessions, when a couple of reporters from the Tamworth Herald visit and briefly take photographs of club members on the stage, etc. They stay only briefly, having to also cover a Halloween related event at the nearby Castle.
In readiness for the evening, a digital thermometer was placed on the mantel-piece of the cleaners room, with the attached probe hung (freely) over a nearby clothes rack.
A large wooden cross – outlined on a piece of paper – was placed in the centre of the floor of the cleaners room. An audio alarm was placed on top of the cross.
A second digital thermometer was placed on a small table on the left hand side of the stage, with a remote probe on the floor of the right hand side of the stage area.
All of the above were left in place and monitored throughout the duration of the visit.
Session One – 9.56 pm to 10.30 pm:
Video camera and infra-red torch placed (on tripods) in front of the exit door of the cleaners room, facing across the room towards the cleaners cupboard. (Cross trigger object in view of the camera).
Digital audio recorder hung over one end of the clothes rack also holding the thermometer probe.
Lights were switched off in the cleaners room for duration of the session. Door to stage firmly closed.
Video camera (on tripod) set-up on topmost level of raised seating – dead centre of rows - facing towards the stage area.
Video camera (on tripod) set-up on right hand side of stage area, facing out towards the auditorium.
John and Julie seated on balcony area of auditorium throughout session one, with Len seated on topmost row of raised seating area.
Steve and Nick situated in room under stage area.
10.05 pm: Steve and Nick hear noise – seemingly coming from outside of the room somewhere, up the stairs, which sounds like a distant growling or rumble. Cannot initially identify the source of the sound, although it is reasoned that, because of the nature of the noise itself, it is probably mechanical / native to the building itself. John later identifies sound as being the flushing of the urinals in the gents toilets situated at the top of the under-stage area stairs. The same sound was also heard by Julie during the earlier part of our visit.
Nothing to report at end of session one, save for the fact that a considerable degree of noise is prone to carrying into the building from the streets surrounding the building – voices of passing revellers and so on – and the light levels in certain parts of the property (the auditorium, etc) is conducive to giving the impression of ‘movement’ seen from the corner of the eye / peripheral vision at times. Also in the auditorium area, the radiators were heard to knock loudly at sporadic intervals throughout the duration of the stay.
10.38 pm: cleaners room, auditorium and stage video recordings stopped.
10.45 pm: video recording session set-up in the gents toilets near the bar area. Camera situated to left of door as you enter, pointing towards door.
Session 2 – 10.56 pm to 11.30 pm:
John, Len and Julie situated in room under stage area.
Steve and Nick situated on top row of raised seating area in auditorium.
11.21 pm: Steve reports seeing a brief flash of light, seemingly on railings to raised seating levels, three sections up from the door to the main corridor.
11.37 pm: recording session in gents toilets ended.
Session 3 – 11.42 pm to 12.15 am:
John, Julie and Len situated on stage and in front row seats of auditorium area.
Nick and Steve situated in cleaners room. ‘Baiting’ session suggested in this area, so a video camera is placed (on a tripod) on the floor, some feet away from exit door, pointing towards the cleaners cupboard.
Steve proceeds to gently aim questions at the room for the duration of some 15 minutes while camera records.
Session 4 – 12.24 am to 1.00 am:
John, Julie and Len situated in cleaners room.
Steve and Nick situated in front row seating of auditorium.
Approx. 12.30 am: Nick – while in the process of conversing with Steve – twice has an impression that someone is in the process of creeping very quietly along the corridor behind him, towards the stage end door to the auditorium. Not a blatant sound, but a hint of movement which gave the impression of a careful, muffled tread. Nothing present to account for this impression.
In checking observations between group members, John admits that he too had a similar notion during his time in the auditorium.
12.35 am: Steve looks over his right shoulder – roughly in direction of the door to the corridor at the raised seating end of the room – and reacts at seeing a ‘shape’ seemingly in the process of ‘walking’ across the floor of the auditorium. He describes the shape as appearing to be in the process of ‘walking into’ the auditorium from the corridor, along the path denoted by the lowest level of the raised seating, and was seen to travel a distance of some 7 to 10 feet approximately. Nick turned upon seeing Steve react, but the effect had already ended by this point in time.
Steve found considerable problem in describing the shape he had seen, saying that it resembled an effect like looking at someone with a bright light shining onto one side of them, but with only the reflected light / highlighted portion visible. It was not a discernible figure, but around 6 feet in height, blurred and having a vague khaki / brown hue to it.
Steve highly perturbed by his experience and sits in same position as he was in during his experience and tries to re-create the happening by experimenting with lights, his vision, etc. Cannot replicate the effect.
The rest of the stay is spent in the stage front / auditorium area, but nothing else is experienced.
In discussing Steves experience – and checking details with Jock – it was suggested (by the ghost-lore of the building) that the ghost of the old man seen in the auditorium / corridor area was that of a former caretaker. In pondering over the peculiar khaki / brown hue seen by Steve, it was suggested by group members that this may possibly relate to the same colour frequently used for the old-style cow gown, long smock-like garments frequently worn by warehousemen and caretakers in times gone by?
1.15 am to 1. 30 am: group pack up and leave premises.
Findings:
Temperatures in the cleaners room fluctuated two degrees during the stay.
Temperatures on the stage fluctuated less than a degree during the visit.
Upon checking through the video / audio footage taken during the visit, nothing of potential interest was discovered on any of the recordings.
Regards,
Nick
www.westmidlandsghostclub.com
Akin to your technical equipment, the somewhat 'sceptical' viewpoint of a researcher can apparently play havoc with professed psychic abilities !!! (If you catch my drift !! 
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