The Grange's own institutional history across more than a century and a half gives its two reported ghosts an unusually varied set of possible origins to have emerged from. Built in 1855 as a vicarage, the building's subsequent uses read almost as a survey of English institutional life across successive eras: private residence, a hospital serving the RAF, a union convalescence home providing recuperative care, and now a residential care home for the elderly, each phase bringing a different population of staff, patients, and residents through the same rooms.
The library ghost is the more actively disruptive of the two, described specifically as poking and pinching nursing staff with unseen hands, a physically intrusive and clearly mischievous rather than dangerous form of haunting, closer in character to a poltergeist's petty harassment than to any more menacing presence. No identity or originating story has been traced for this figure in the sources consulted for this entry, and given the building's own long institutional history, the source of the mischief could plausibly date from any of its several successive uses.
By contrast, the Grey Lady reported upstairs is explicitly described as genteel and benign, a calm counterpart to the library's more troublesome spirit, following this register's familiar pattern of anonymous, unthreatening grey lady figures recorded at dozens of other sites. Current staff at the care home, caring for residents in a building with its own long history of institutional care stretching back through military and convalescent use, work now alongside two quite differently tempered ghosts, one an active nuisance, the other simply a quiet, accepted presence.
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