Now housing Bryan & Knott, 11 High Street was built in the early 1700′s and was formerly a sweet shop with living quarters on the first floor. The only history of the premises reports a possible suicide on the first floor but the date of such an event can not be verified.

The first recorded event is that of a cleaning lady who used to look after the first floor became so unsettled with first floor she asked a friend to help her. When her friend came with her she brought her dog, the dog became so anxious on entering the building it would not follow her up the stairs.

The second event relates to two decorators who were employed to decorate the rooms on the first floor at night. One of the decorators fell asleep on the settee in the living room and was woken suddenly by what he thought was his friend shaking him. However he was alone in the room and his friend was working up a ladder in the corridor at the other side of the building.

excerpt from Bridgnorth Ghost Book by Mark Hartley & Julie Wareing