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!
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Here are some retro pictures of Sheffield's Halloween celebrations. Can you spot yourself?
10. Don't run with those
Amy Louise writes "my little boy as Edward Scissorhands." How is he going to open sweet wrappers in those things? | Amy Louise
11. They're creepy and they're kooky
Bethany Rhiannon and her very own Addams Family. | Bethany Rhiannon
12. The Ghost with The Most, Babe
Lauren Whitham shared this Beetlejuice duo ready for a night of trick or treating. | Lauren Whitham