The Kremlin Inn takes its genuinely unusual name from the large number of Polish and other Eastern European workers, some of them former prisoners of war and displaced persons rebuilding their lives after the conflict, who settled around Clee Hill's quarries in the years following the Second World War, and the pub's own ghost lore reflects that real, documented immigrant history in a genuinely oblique way. Alongside a fairly conventional report of a black dog seen prowling around the building's exterior after dark, there are separate, considerably stranger accounts of Russian voices heard issuing directly from the jukebox with no obvious source to explain them.
Black dog sightings are extremely common across rural England more broadly and rarely carry any specific explanation of their own beyond the general folklore tradition they belong to, but the jukebox voices represent a far more distinctive and genuinely locally specific detail, one that speaks directly to the pub's own particular post-war Eastern European community rather than to any generic folklore motif.
The two reports do not appear to actually be connected to each other in any of the tellings gathered here, and both are recorded as separate, thinly documented pieces of the pub's own overall reputation, a black dog belonging to widespread English folklore sharing the same building as Russian voices that belong, much more specifically, to Clee Hill's own genuine post-war history.
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