Former Sheffield pub 'one of city's most haunted locations' following strange sightings

Dating back to the 1100s, the hall was rebuilt in 1462 and was used as a Rounhead meeting house during the siege of Sheffield Castle during the English Civil War.

It’s then-owner, John Bright, a leading parliamentarian and close ally to Thomas Cromwell is said to make regular appearances, along with the spirit of one John Blunt, who is said to have been an inn-keeper in the early days of what remained of the hall, after much of it was demolished in the 1900s.

Neither apparition is said to be particularly troublesome, neither is the spirit of a woman dressed in 1920s clothing, regularly seen rocking backwards and forwards in a rocking chair by visitors.

Until 2018, the remaining part of the hall, a side building which dates from around 1620, served as a pub and, like Sheffield’s Old Queen’s Head, also has a troublesome spirit who enjoys locking ladies in the cubicles in the toilets and not letting them out.

And ghostly goings-on don’t seem to have slowed down at Carbrook Hall since it became a Starbucks in 2019, with staff reporting hearing children’s laughter and a baby crying as they prepare to close up at night.

There have also been reports of doors mysteriously opening by themselves and bags of coffee and stacked cups being sent tumbling with nobody near them.

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