In the four years since we started running Ghost Walks in Birmingham, this has been our busiest Halloween so far.
As well as selling out on our Sinister City and Graveyard Ghost Walks, we have had record bookings for both our Sutton Coldfield and Warwick Ghost Walks. Private bookings have included groups of Trainee Solicitors, 2 different High Street banks, a Dance School and a 50th Birthday. We have also worked in conjunction with The Old Joint Stock and the Masonic Hall at Sixty Severn Street to create combined Meal and Ghost Walk events, both had great feedback for both the food and the Walk, and we got to hear of some new haunted sites that we will be investigating further.
We were delighted to be able to take nearly 100 people into Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Works at the end of the evening of their Twilight Tours, no Ghosts but another dimension to the Funeral industry in Birmingham over the last 100 years. Taking their lead we will soon produce our top ten books on Hauntings, Murder and Hangings in Birmingham, which if you order via Amazon using this link, Amazon will send 5% to the Birmingham Conservation Trust, the charity that have plans to bring Newman Brothers Factory back to life.
Guests on our Halloween Walk braved the driving rain, and were rewarded at the end with a “Widowmaker” cocktail and a bowl of Pumpkin soup at The Red Lion on Warstone Lane. About a third of the group wore fancy dress, but the prize went to Chantal. She had personally stabbed a muti-pack of Variety Cereal using plastic knives, and carried her next victim with her on the walk, a worried looking box of Weetabix, with the words “Help me I’m the next victim” scrawled in jam across the front of the box. It took a few of the guests time to make the connection, “Oh a serial killer”. Chantal, a great costume and a very worthy winner.
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