THE sun dances on the red bricks of Covent Garden’s Tube station, piercing the morning’s cloudy veil and putting paid to any hope of sighting William Terriss, the ghost of the Underground. Once a celebrated 19th-century actor, Terriss is a particularly restless spectre: he haunts not only the Adelphi Theatre, where he was murdered by another thespian, but also, bizarrely, the station. Story has it that he was partial to the pies of a bakery that once stood there and returns to search for them in vain—although he may have now given up on his quest, because he has not been spotted for a few years.
‘Joseph Grimaldi’s ghost apparently loves nothing more than kicking fellow actors when they are on stage’
London has a reputation for being one of the world’s
