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The Sheffield University Arts Tower was only built to last 10 / 20 / 30 years (and presumably collapse on to Bolsover / Winter Street the next day).

 

Ah I'd forgotten the Arts Tower myths...

 

  • That no fire engines in South Yorkshire are tall enough to put out a fire in there
  • That it's sinking by an inch a year
  • That the architecture students got the top floor because they are architects and must thus take the blame for the place!

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apparantly the road that run under the "outibridge" - devil's bridge is the Stocksbridge Bypass which is rumoured to be haunted and spooks out drivers - plus has had many an accident on there!!

 

I read about the Stocksbridge Bypass being haunted in one of them crap books that are always on sale in cheap bookshops.

 

How come no-one's mentioned the ghost that apparently lives in the cellar or next to the toilet of the Carbrook Hall?

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I read about the Stocksbridge Bypass being haunted in one of them crap books that are always on sale in cheap bookshops.

 

How come no-one's mentioned the ghost that apparently lives in the cellar or next to the toilet of the Carbrook Hall?

 

Carbrook hall is reported to have at least 3 ghosts which are well documented over a long period of time.

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This is true, Swine Cottage is listed on old maps. It was the site of a small piggery. But was not on the site where Hillsboro is now, but close.

 

Actually, thats the urban myth.

 

There is no Swine Cottage listen on any old maps.

 

Its made up by the blades :-)

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Ah I'd forgotten the Arts Tower myths...

 

  • That no fire engines in South Yorkshire are tall enough to put out a fire in there
  • That it's sinking by an inch a year
  • That the architecture students got the top floor because they are architects and must thus take the blame for the place!

 

...and if you go "over the top" in the paternoster, it turns you upside down.

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