The Nottingham Ghost Walk

The University of Staffordshire was hosting a Crime Scene and Evidence Analysis Workshop. I and two friends decided to extend our trip and visit Nottingham beforehand. Tessa and I arrived on Saturday and Linda would follow the next day.

Tessa and I checked into our hostel on Thurland Street which is right in the middle of the city centre. The young manager had heavy accent and seemed disorganized. We would be staying in two rooms in the span of the three days we would be there. We’d stopped by the Nottingham Tourism Centre earlier and saw a leaflet advertising the Nottingham Ghost Walk. The Nottingham Ghost Walk is only hosted on Saturdays and leaves from the Salutation on Maid Marian Way. From there we followed the entertainer by the name of Gary who was garbed in a top hat, a long coat and fingerless gloves. He walked around with a flute and put me in mind of the Artful Dodger.

Gary took us on a 90 minute walk around the centre of Nottingham, stopping at specific location and telling the local ghost stories. We walked past the Royal Children’s Pub, the Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem (“the Trip”), the Robin Hood Statue, Nottingham Castle and ended beneath the Salutation in part of the cave system that runs underground throughout the whole of Nottingham.