During the Second World War Malcolm McIntyre-Ure lived in a wooden house called Woodlands which stood just over a kilometre from Seymour Court, just outside Marlow. During the air-raids of 1940-41, when he was eight or nine, the family used to go to a dug-out in a bank about one hundred and fifty metres from the house. The bank was on one side of an old track way which ran from the woods near where the house stood to a nearby field.

Once the family spent the night in the dug-out and in the morning Malcolm awoke to find that his mother, brother and sister had returned to the house and left him sleeping. He got up and was standing in the entrance to the dug-out when he saw a lady in a cloak approaching along the track. He was a shy child so he withdrew into the dug-out to watch her go by. As she passed Malcolm’s hiding place she was only three metres away and he could see that her clothes were all grey and that the cloak, which was not a full length one, was tied with a belt. The cloak had a hood and beneath it he could see the woman’s dark, curly hair. He estimated her age at around the mid-twenties and her appearance was smart and pleasant, as real as anyone he had seen. He assumed she was a visitor, as very few people used the track and it didn’t really go anywhere.

After she had gone he went up to the house to get his breakfast but there was no sign of a visitor. The rest of the family made a joke of what he had seen saying it was the ‘grey lady’. At first Malcolm thought it might have been a dream and then he decided it was not. News of what he saw got around until one day someone from the Lodge of Seymour Court came to visit him to ask him what he had seen. From what the visitor said Malcolm was not the only person to have seen her. Decade’s later people were still claiming to have seen her around Seymour Court.

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See also - Buckinghamshire - Marlow - Seymour Court