12-04-2025
Join the first ever ghost hunt at historic community building
BEING a city well known for its often turbulent history, Carlisle has more than its fair share of supposedly haunted locations.
But a group of ghost hunters are offering the public a chance to join them to explore an as-yet uninvestigated Grade-II Listed building in Carlisle for signs of paranormal activity.
Paranormal Investigations Crew, led by Carlisle-based Sarah Simmons, has organised a ticketed ghost hunt event at Currock Community Centre on Lediard Avenue on Saturday, May 10.
Ticketholders will be able to join Sarah and the team for five and a half hours from 7.30pm until 1am to explore the imposing building.
Members of the team, including Sarah, will attempt to contact spirits using psychic abilities, as well as various gadgets used by ghost hunters around the globe to detect presences from the afterlife.
Tickets are £30 per person, with no under-18s allowed.
Visit the Paranormal Investigations Crew Facebook page for more information and to book your tickets
Built in 1842, Currock Community Centre is a Victorian Grade-II-Listed building.
On October 6, 1934, it was handed over to be run as a community centre, one of the first in England and the first of its kind in Carlisle.
The site was originally known as "Cuddick," an early name for Currock, appearing on Greenwoods Map of Cumberland from 1823, and was occupied by William Carruthers and his wife Sarah according to the census.
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It was bought in 1932 by Carlisle corporation and the house was due to be demolished to build new housing estates, however the stables were partially demolished and the house left, as a committee ran by volunteers convinced Carlisle corporation to use the building as a community centre.
The building was not accessible by road until the late 1930s, until which time, visitors would often have to wade through thick mud to reach it.
For a short period this building also served as the YHA hostel for Carlisle.
Currock community centre today has a main hall, small hall, lounge area, jubilee room, kitchen and office spaces, and the centre now offers a wide variety of activities and facilities, events, private hire and a safe space for the Carlisle community.
