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• The reputation for the town hall being haunted may have begun with the fact the it was constructed over a burial ground.
• When the foundations for the town hall were being dug in the nineteenth century a number of complete skeletons, together with assorted skulls and bones, were discovered.

A ghostly monk is said to haunt the Town hall, legend has it that the monk was expelled from St Bartholomew’s priory following a misdemeanour.

As the Town Hall stands close to where  a priory once stood , it is not surprising , perhaps , to find that a spectral monk haunts the basement, and that several people claim to have seen him.

Another ghost said to haunt the town hall is that of a woman wearing a voluminous black dress with a white pinafore and a black, conical hat – apparel rather similar in style to that of the Welsh national costume. She has been seen by several employees descending the impressive wide interior staircase; the last known sighting of this apparition was in 1978, while in the same decade a male employee was so shocked by the sudden appearance of an eerie female spectre that he was found cowering with fright beneath one of the tables.

Early in the 1980’s , former security officer , while in the basement , saw an apparition of man in a top hat and a long black coat . It has been suggested that this could be the ghost of the Murdered Chief Constable .

Council employees based at the town hall have had strange experiences in the building over many years, includingg sightings of Mr Soloman. As a result the basement was never used again until its conversion into a police museum in July 2005.