With Halloween right around the corner, Sheffield's residents will soon be filling the streets to trick-or-treat, carve pumpkins, don eerie costumes, and share sweet treats.
Some of you may have memories of Fright Night which historically ran as the UK's largest commercialised free city-centre Halloween parade.
It ran for 12-years, beginning in 2001, before ending in 2013.
This gallery shows a number of pictures from the annual event from its first to last year.
The event proved massively popular, eventually drawing crowds of roughly 40,000 people.
However, rising security expenditures, including demands for police cost recovery, placed immense financial pressure on free community gatherings, ultimately bringing Fright Night to a close.
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Nowadays, the highly popular Out of This World annual festival keeps the tradition alive for everything strange and spectacular, with its grand return scheduled for this coming weekend (October 25, 2026). Find out more about it here.
For the grown-ups, there’s always FearFest. It’s UK’s biggest Halloween rave, which is returning for its 14th installment later this month.
To mark this spooky occasion, we have gathered a collection of throwback photos capturing past Halloween festivities held across the city over the years.
Take a look and see if you recognise anyone!
1. Plusnet
Pictured at Plusnet, Terry Street, Sheffield, where staff were dressed up for some Halloween fun, October 2005
2. Pumpkin making
Halloween activities at Centre in the Park, Norfolk Park, Sheffield. Connor Allen, nine, at the pumpkin-making classes, October 28, 2010
3. Halloween Disco
Pictured at the Halloween Disco at Charnock Hall Primary School, Sheffield, are left to right: Red Witch Pauline, Lavinia Turner, Ryan Turner, Barney Maloney, Luke Turner and Lynne Wilcox, October 31, 2006
4. Skeletons
Pictured at the Fright Night held in the Sheffield City centre for Halloween. Seen, from left, Joseph Ward and Bradley Banks, October 31, 2001