Well me owd butties, if any of you are still with us, we have reached our final destination, and where better to complete a full house than the Bingo Hall? It was built as a theatre and cinema in 1934… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY THIRTY ONE – the Bingo Hall
Frum 1552 until they relocated out of town in 1882 this was whum to Shrewsbury School. A “grey lady” wanders amongst the bookcases and staff have often felt her presence, although we have no way of knowing for certain it… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY THIRTY – the Library
This building was formerly whum to a branch of Peter Dominic wine merchants. A visitor started to make himself known in the winter of 1972/3. Staff became frightened when distant footsteps could be heard above them yet nothing untoward was… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY NINE – 15 Castle Street
When the Old Gaol was opposite, this building was the police house. At the end o’the 1800s a policemon, who was possibly racked with guilt after an innocent mon that he’d arrested was executed, went down into the basement and… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY EIGHT – Old Police House
Although now apartments the owd gaol was here frum 1705 until the new prison on Howard Street was finished in 1793. A chapel for the Primitive Methodists was erected here in 1826 and was rebuilt in 1863. At one time… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY SEVEN – Old Gaol, Castle Court
What we have in front of us used to be the show piece of Morris and Co, it’s design was inspired by Blickling Hall in Norfolk, and for a building that was only built in 1927 it has an awful… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY SIX – 25-26 Pride Hill
Okay as we are already here, here is a tale of Ginger & Co, a cafe that used to be in Unit 54 I think. Early mornings, a grey bearded mon dressed in a monk like outfit would often be… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY FIVE – Darwin Shopping Centre…again
A well-known local ghost story tells the tale of a milk-woman who was charged with selling watered down milk and was often seen in the dead of night, walking along Raven Meadows, or Lady Studley’s Diche as it was once… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY FOUR – Darwin Shopping Centre
The Orrel (meaning entrance) is over 300 years old. It was possibly originally the Church House and the church would have stored their ale here. A mon about 5ft 7″ in a dark blue suit (although some say he is… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY THREE – Orrel, Fish Street
A few sketchy details here me owd butties, a steeple-jack named Robin Archer or George Arthur had been employed to put the weather vane on top of the church spire, all 184 feet of it. Some say he was a… Read More »Haunted Shrewsbury DAY TWENTY TWO – St Alkmund’s Church