News from Peterborough City Council

Peterborough Museum's popular Ghost Walk will be offering fun and chills this Halloween with tours running every night from Monday 27 October until Friday 31 October starting at 7.30 pm and 8 pm.

 

To avoid disappointment booking your tickets early is advised as the walks are again proving popular with tickets selling out quickly.

 

The two-hour walking tours around the city centre visit a number of sites which are reputed to be haunted including the museum and the Cathedral precincts. And as a special treat for Halloween, costumed extras en route will bring some of the ghosts to life.

 

The museum is also offering a special adult only midnight tour on Halloween night itself. It explores the haunted sites of the city and additional locations before heading back for a candlelit tour of the museum and a ghost vigil until 4am.

 

Stuart Orme, museum visitor services and marketing manager for Peterborough City Council, also guide and creator of the Ghost Walks, said: "We are again delighted by the response the Ghost Walks have generated. It continues to be a real pleasure to be able to entertain so many people with stories about the city's spooky past. The walks are varied every few months so each one is slightly different. Even if you have not been before you will find it is a unique experience, particularly for Halloween."

 

The Halloween tours start at 7.30 pm and 8 pm on Monday 27 October, Tuesday 28 October, Wednesday 29 October, Thursday 30 October and Friday 31 October. Tickets cost £5 for adults and £3 for children, students and senior citizens. The adults only midnight tour on Halloween is £25 per ticket.

 

For more details and to book call the museum (01733) 343329 or email museum@peterborough.gov.uk Alternatively visit www.peterboroughheritage.org.uk.

 

 

 

The Ghost walk was established in 2001 and will be celebrating seven years in operation on October 31 2008. In that time there have been over 400 walks undertaken by the public or private groups, totalling some 20,000 people.