Newbottle Street, Robbie Burns Public House

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890. Records for the pub go back to 1851 when John Ray was landlord. Painted white, slate roof. Said to be the most haunted building in Houghton-le-Spring! Four ghosts have apparently been seen - an old woman wearing black, a man, a young fair-haired child wearing Victorian clothing and the ghost of Thomas Caldwell, who was allegedly killed in the cellar of the pub in 1876.