Harrison concluded that the image did appear to be genuine, but he continued to be sceptical, believing it could have been the smoke or light playing tricks. ASSAP forwarded the photo to the former Royal Photographic Society president, Dr. O'Rahilly sent the photo for analysis to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), which determined that a burning piece of wood lay on the railing where the image appears, rendering the image a simulacrum. The image of a girl in the doorway of the burning building was not noticed by the photographer or the onlookers it only appeared after the photo had been developed. Locals averred that this was the ghost of Jane Churm, a young girl who was accused (in 1677) of starting a fire in the same town. It appeared to depict the image of a young girl in the doorway of the burning building.
He took a picture of the blaze from across the road with a 200mm lens. Apparitional experience ĭuring the fire on 19 November 1995, Tony O'Rahilly, a sewage farm worker who was also an amateur photographer, was originally stopped by police from approaching the burning building. The building re-opened as a community arts centre in 2000. After a fire gutted the building in November 1995, the facility was rebuilt, retaining the old Edwardian-era façade but replacing the rest of the building. An AWH Sound System, named after its inventor, Arthur William Harris, was installed in the cinema in 1934. Part of the town hall was operating as a cinema, managed by the Cheshire Animated Picture Company, from the early 20th century. The building, which was designed in the Victorian style, was built in red brick and completed in 1905.