Concern as historic pub items sold online

ITEMS FROM a historic Sheffield pub have been advertised for sale online – prompting concerns from the building’s owner and heritage campaigners.

Grade II*-listed Carbrook Hall, which dates back to 1176, has links to the Civil War and the siege of Sheffield Castle, and is reputedly haunted.

The premises were sold last year and there were five break-ins before a arsonists started a blaze which damaged part of the interior in April.

Jamie Smith posted a photograph of a ceramic bottle on the Sheffield History Facebook group, along with the message ‘From Carbrook Hall PM me offers’.

The bottle says ‘Samuel Hilton Carbook Sheffield’ on the front and a message on the neck, dated 1914, reads ‘anyone detaining this bottle is liable to be prosecuted’.

After the message was posted some people questioned how he had got hold of an item from the historic building.

He responded, saying: “What’s on here was destined for the skip so I saved it.”

When someone asked about the price, he wrote: “Best offer so far is £25 but got someone interested in buying everything I’ve got from Carbrook Hall as a job lot.”

The pub’s owner Sean Fogg, of West Street Leisure, said: “The only things which went in the skip were parts which had been badly burned and were ripped out to make the building safe.

“If anyone has any items from the pub they’ve got it without our consent.”

Mr Fogg has said he is in talks with a multi-national company about leasing the building so it can be restored.

Sheffield historian Ron Clayton said he was concerned items from the pub were being advertised for sale.

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