On 9th February 1647 King Charles I was held captive at Red Hall. The room in which the king was lodged became known as the 'King's Chamber'. A well appointed apartment with a figured plaster ceiling. The gardens on the south side stretched down to Albion Place. There were also gardens on the west side and they became known as King Charles' Croft.

During the king's stay John Harrison, a leading townsman, obtained permission to take to the king a tankard of nut brown ale for which Leeds was famous. The tankard also contained a gift of several gold pieces which the king concealed about his person.
During the king's stay a servant of Thomas Metcalfe, Mrs Crosby, offered to give the king women's clothing, and ,if he would disguise himself, she would conduct him out of the garden door into a back alley called Lands Lane. From there she would take him to a house of a friend and await an opportunity to escape. The king declined the offer and gave Mrs Crosby his garter and told her that should his son come to the throne she should give him an account of how she came into possession of the garter. When King Charles II came to the throne Mrs Crosby presented the garter and related the story. The new king asked her if she had a husband. Mrs Crosby was married to a bailiff in Leeds. The king promptly made Mr Crosby the High Bailiff of York. With their new found wealth the Crosbys built Crosby Hall in the Upper Head Row. The house remained until 1937 when the block of property was sold and demolished to make way for the Lewis's department store (currently Alders department store).

Meanwhile… back at Red Hall…

 Around the early part of the 19th century there was living in Red Hall Mr & Mrs Samuel Blakelock. In the contemporary Leeds directory Samuel is described as a share-broker but in 1849 he became Secretary of the Leeds General Infirmary. He served the Infirmary until 1869 when he presumably died as Mrs Sarah Blakelock is noted in the Directory as being the occupier of Red Hall. She lived at Red Hall until her death, aged 70yrs, in 1888. At the time she was visiting her daughter and son-in-law, the Reverend Dr Salts of Littleborough. She is buried in Littleborough churchyard.
During the early years of the twentieth century Sarah's son, the Reverend father Blakelock, lived at Red Hall.

Following the father's departure the house appears to have been sub-let into office premises. A firm of solicitors Newstead and Wilson, had an office there. When that partnership dissolved Edmund Wilson retained the tenancy. He was a founder member of the Thoresby Society, the local history society of Leeds, and was it's first President. He was also the Colonel of the Leeds Rifles Regiment and the secretary of the Coliseum theatre.

 Up to the year 1912 auctioneers, professional people and tradesmen occupied the hall.
In 1912 a nearby shopkeeper, Mr Snowden Schofield, purchased the premises. After being greatly altered Red Hall became part of his shop premises. The King's Chamber was converted into a café.
When the workmen were reconstructing the outer wall a cannonball was found embedded in the rubble core. It was a shot the size of a kind that were fired from small cannon in the Civil War.

In 1960-61 the progressive firm of Schofields decided to rebuild the store which meant , amongst other properties, that the remaining part of Red Hall was demolished.

 The story of King Charles' visit to Leeds is remembered in the nearby street, King Charles' Street and, until demolished to build the Bradford and Bingley Building Society in the 1970s , the King Charles Hotel.

In the late 1980s Schofields expanded yet again demolishing several buildings nearby, including the building society, and built a large shopping mall.

In the 1990s Schofield left the scene entirely and the mall became known as the Headrow Centre.