Free Ghost Tours & Walks

The Basement Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London
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This event ended on Wednesday 3rd of October 2012
Admission
Most events are free unless otherwise stated
Location

The Basement Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Shoreditch High Street 0.28 miles

Illumini last free event attracted over 9,000 visitors. They’re back again with more secret subterranean explorations of the city. To celebrate Charles Dickens 200years anniversary, Illumini will take you on a journey of Victorian hauntings, explore the dark side of a city long forgotten,take torch light tours beneath the haunted streets of the city.

During Illumini 2012 ,as well as the main exhibition, there will numerous talks, ghost stories and even tours and walks about Dickensian, Haunted and Subterranean London. Most events are free or less other wise stated.

Some tours and walks have limited numbers and have to be booked in advance, each event has full details of meeting points and times listed on our website. Please note any walks or tours, where their is a small cost, the money goes to the organisation or the guide not to Illumini and is a special reduced price for Illumini Event.


Fri 28th Sept 11am Free The Story of Dickens (Walk by Brian Cookson)
Hear the story of Charles Dickens's life as we walk through areas of London frequented by himself and his characters. We start where the young David Copperfield worked in a factory, based on Dickens's own experience. On our way we explore Fleet Street and its alleyways, ending up at the Inns of Court, home of the lawyers who are so often lampooned in his novels.

Fri 28th Sept, 19:30, Mon 1st Oct, 19:30, Tue 2nd Oct, 19:30 Free- Pirates of Execution Dock (Ghost Walk by Boo Tours)
A guided ghost tour of London's East End riverside. Includes haunted gallows, ledgendary pirate tales, scary monsters and Dickens' pubs!

Sat 29 th Sept & Sun 30 th Sept Tours of the Grand Entrance Hall of The Thames Tunnel Tickets £ 6
Crawl through a short tunnel to descend by temporary staircase into a ghostly chamber , half the size of Shakespeare's Globe, but hidden underground. This forgotten subterranean amphitheatre is where six people lost their lives and from which Brunel barely escaped. For 145 years the chamber has lain entirely inaccessible, and now the Brunel Museum is fundraising for a grand re-opening.

Sat 29th Sept & Sun 30th sept @10am. £5- Tour of West Norwood Catacombs
The original design of the cemetery included an Anglican mortuary chapel (now demolished). The catacombs beneath the site remain intact. Visitors will be able to see a series of brick vaults containing approximately 2,500 coffins. In the middle of the central gallery is the unique hydraulic catafalque by Bramah and Robinson and dates 1839. This was used to transfer coffins into the catacombs silently and reverently from the chapel above.

Mon 1st Oct 11am Fee: £5 Brian Cookson- CHARLES DICKENS' CITY OF LONDON
This walk explores the streets, churchyards and alleyways where Mr Pickwick, Ebenezer Scrooge and a host of Dickensian characters lived and worked. Follow in the footsteps of Dickens through the heart of the City and finish in a traditional Victorian marketplace.


Prison Cells in Viaduct Tavern Cellars
Free to customers only during and also after the Illumini Event.

The Viaduct has an exciting history - it sits on the site of the Giltspur Comptor, a debtors' jail affiliated to Newgate Prison, and five of the original cells are still visible in the cellar and said to be haunted. Originally it was built as a gin palace and much of the Victorian style is still displayed.


Wed 3rd Oct 8pm. £5 Jenny Phillips- Jack the Ripper Walk
Is this what the face of Jack the Ripper looked like? Was he a local man or a visitor to the area? How did he manage to evade capture when surely he must have been noticeably bloodstained as many homeless were wandering the streets at night? What would happen if this crime occurred today, would he still evade capture? Why is he called Jack not Edward Thomas or Harold the Ripper? Would you like to know the answer to these and other questions you may have on this gruesome fascinating character? If so book a walk with me for one night only in conjunction with the Illumini Event 2012.

For full details please visit our website

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