Hello there and thankyou for taking the time to read this. I am hoping there are a few people out there that can tell me abit of history about the building in Castle Street that is now MultiYork. I live above MultiYork and my address is 32/33 CastleStreet but I think Multiyork is in fact classed as 34?. Anyway I cannot find out anything about this building in fact I can't even find out what it was before it was multiyork! I only ask as since living here I and a friend have seen a few wiered things ( I don't believe in ghosts ) but nevertheless I'd like to know abit of the history about this building and did it ever burn down?

Many many thanks in advance for any info.

Can't think of anything regarding the building off the top of my head but what I do know is that ghosts don't actually exist.

The building it's self used to belong to Wilding's The Printers which closed sometime in the 70's. I don't know anything about ghosts there, but will let you know if I find out anything. :huh:

Hold on there PS! :o Don't you realise a large (& cheap!) part of Shrewsbury's tourist attractions are dependent on such stories! :lol:

Yeah but it's ridiculous. I actually roll my eyes and sigh when I see ghost tours and the like. Such utter nonsense.

I know what you mean but some of the tales are really old and quaint. The tour I went on was in the pouring rain when my son was 11, so quite a few years ago and was his friends birthday treat. It was just after the cobbles were removed so we not only got extremely wet but diced with death trying to cross back and forth over the road with a large group of children and struggled to hear what the tour leader was saying with the noise of the traffic. :(

SABC have an option on their GIS to show the supposedly haunted sites in the area.

There is one in Castle Street is the spook that apparently wanders about in the old kitchen on the top floor of the WH Smith building.

Now one of these days I'm going to get round to writing a PacMan game based on the streets and shuts of Shrewsbury...

I hope LS visitors do not come to Shrewsbury to see 'ghosts' we have far better architecture and history ,surely? I doubt it is a 'large' part of Shrewsburys attractions!

Too much spirit tonight Andy? Seeing double? :lol:

BTW Martin Wood the town crier has written a book about haunted buildings in Shrewsbury and there is absolutely no doubt that he's a big tourist attraction! :rolleyes:

Cheers avronb, Any information about this building is much appreciated, I have lived here for 3 years now and have not been able to find anything on the place at all. I have 4 seperate attics here and they are all full of very old timber beams and masonary ( lots of large arches ) I just wonder what it was originally.

thanks

Actually I found the ghost tour was fantastic. There were no ghosts to be seen and in fact a good 80% of the tour was about the history of the town. The location of the old mansions, the development of the shuts, the places that future kings of England stayed on their way to campaigns, the fire badges on the old buildings, old St Chads, the finances of St Alkmunds, etc, etc. I'd highly recommend it to anyone. I'll bet I learned more about the town in that two hours than a lot of locals pick up in the lifetime.

If you dismiss it just because of the ghost angle you are missing out.

You are right eatshrewsbury, they are an education. I found that there were all sorts of nooks and crannies that you just don't notice and also a surprising number of things when you look up. Carved beams in the shuts for example.
My children were regaling the stories to each other in the morning and they particularly liked the one about the person buried with a bell in their hand so they could ring it and let someone know if they found that they were not dead after all!

Yes, that's right. Wildings were there from the 1930s or earlier. They were printers and publishers. Their printing works was in a separate building at the rear. They also sold records (78/45 rpm) and you could go downstairs and sit in a booth to hear a record before you bought it (hmmm). Needless to say, it was a good place to go to hear all the latest releases. I think there were showrooms on the first floor.

After Wildings finished there was a catalogue surplus shop there for a good while. The upper floors were converted into flats some years ago in the mid 1990s possibly.

As said Martin Wood has written a book "Haunted Shrewsbury" which is a good read.