Darkish Chester [pictured above; image via Stuart Robinson Photography] presents Victorian Gothic subsequent week.
It’s a brand new night strolling tour with a literary motif, delving into Chester’s golden age throughout the reign of Queen Victoria.
It was an age of innovation, world energy and flushing bathrooms. However the Victorians had been additionally obsessive about ghost tales and the supernatural.
The tour traces a social historical past of Chester and the assertion buildings of its Victorian Gothic makeover, interspersed with some Gothic readings and poetry from the center of Victorian darkness.
This tour has developed from the Midsummer Gothic tour I led for the Chester Heritage Competition earlier this summer season.
Victorian Gothic departs Wednesday, September 4 from the Customer Data Centre, City Corridor Sq., at 5.30pm. It repeats chosen Wednesdays all through autumn into winter and by appointment for personal teams.
Darkish Chester, in the meantime, continues all through the winter, departing on the new time of 5.30pm from September 21.
I’m including each excursions to Viatour from September however you possibly can nonetheless additionally purchase tickets instantly from the Customer Data Centre.
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