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The Parade

The Parade Shopping Centre is in the heart of medieval Shrewsbury, at the top of Pride Hill. It is situated on two floors in a Grade U listed building which was completed in 1826 and has a terrace café overlooking the River Severn .

The building used to be the Royal Salop Infirmary and it is said that some of the hospital staff are still there taking care of things. New tenants in the shops usually experience strange events for the first year or so and then things settle down as they are accepted by ‘Matron’! She is the ghost of a hospital matron of the 1 920s. In life she was organized and efficient and it seems that she is still intent on keeping things in order.

One man once spent two hours putting up posters on the ceiling of his collectable toy and model shop only to find when he unlocked the shop the next morning that they were in rows on the floor. On another occasion plaques and trophies that had been hung haphazardly on the wall were placed above the fireplace in a straight line. Other tenants have also found that stock items left in

a mess will be arranged neatly in rows, while other things are moved round or thrown off shelves or walls. Even furniture is moved about and doors suddenly close on their own. However, Matron is never intimi dating just a stickler for tidiness! She also has a compassionate side. When the building was still a hospital it was said that she used to appear at the foot of dying people’s beds in order to help them over to the next world.

The shopping centre is also said to be haunted by a young nurse who became pregnant and committed suicide by hanging herself there. Edinburgh | Essex | Lancashire | Northamptonshire | Oxford | Suffolk | Suffolk | Surrey | Sussex | York |