I Have Never Been Quiet Convinced About Ghosts,

but perhaps I should have a tipple at Birmingham’s Trocadero,

and maybe bump into Henry Skinner, Henry was murdered in the watering hole 116 years ago, and in the centenary year of the pub being christened the Trocadero, Henry has stepped up his anti-social behaviour, on December 5, 1895, he made the mistake of crossing brothers Herbert and Arthur Allen, Arthur worked at the pub but was sacked on the spot and a furious row over wages erupted, in a fit of rage his brother, grabbed a gun and blasted the landlord, the Birmingham Gazette reported dramatically, 'the bulldog pattern bullet, quite capable of felling an ox, buried itself in the wainscoting, Skinner turned back towards the noise and the next shot caught him in the side of the chest as he turned',

current manager Pete Yeomans admitted the only spirits he has seen have been on the top shelf, but the 30-year-old added, 'a previous manager saw a ghostly gentleman and she felt she always had to say hello and goodbye to Henry', the pub was originally named the Bodega, an upmarket wine bar that was a famous haunt of thespians and sportsmen,

formerly the Fire Engine House for the Norwich Union Insurance Company (1846, Edge & Avery), it was altered in 1883 to make the Bodega wine bar, it was given the current colourful glazed front in 1902 when it became the Trocadero, so who knows maybe there is a spirit there?