Mary Forsyth of Watford, writes: "Regarding Cassiobury Court. I have been in correspondence, privately, with the descendants of Hugh Angell who ran a riding stables from this building in the 1930's.

"I have permission from one of them, Mrs E Bloxham, to give you extracts from her letter to me": "We were there in the early 1930's and sadly had to leave first before the war in 1939. It broke my heart even as a young child when beautiful, huge chestnut, beech and oak trees were felled.

"My brother and I used to climb through them lying on the ground. When I visited a few years ago I was able to look over my old home and I asked, whether the ghost was still there.

"My parents experienced very strange things happening, although we children knew nothing of it at the time.

"Sometimes they heard crashing crockery from the kitchen, which was some way from the sitting room, the dog's hackles rising, started barking. When they went to see what had happened everything was normal nothing had broken!

"We had no electricity just oil lamps to carry from room to room. It must have been very creepy but we didn't think so but I'm sure my mother did.

"We had fond memories of those days riding through Whippendell Woods. Lovely times for us children."