FAMILY and friends were saying a final farewell to a familiar face from Haworth Main Street today.

Stan Ledgard, 68, who ran the all-things psychic shop Spooks with his wife Shirley for more than three decades, died last month after a seven-year-battle with cancer.

He died at Bradford's Marie Curie Hospice and his funeral was taking place at Scholemoor Crematorium at 2pm today.

Mr Ledgard grew up in Girlington where generations of his family ran a sweet and tobacconist shop. After attending Bradford Grammar School he went to college to become a scientific and technical photographer.

After several years away, he got a job as a technician in the photography department at Bradford College.

He married Shirley in the 1970s and it was through her evening class in the supernatural that he developed his own interest in Psychic Studies.

The couple went on to open Spooks in 1983. In 1989 they bought a former run-down mill owner's house called Speak Institute at Mountain near Queensbury , refurbishing it and renaming it Mountain Hall, running residential psychic awareness courses.

About ten years ago, Mr Ledgard embarked on a new activity as an author, publishing 14 books about trolleybuses, two humorous local interest books, two historical books and two novels.

As well as leaving his wife Shirley, 64, Mr Ledgard, who lived in Queensbury, leaves his much-loved dogs Lizzy and Charlie.