Sites of the Great Fire of London, 1666
A small fire which started in a bakery in Pudding Lane went on to destroy most of the City of London in 1666. Travel Darkly visits the sites associated with the worst fire in recorded history...
© Simon Montgomery
Jack the Ripper Tour, London
Travel Darkly joins one of the Jack the Ripper tours around the East End of London, where five women were murdered during the 'Autumn of Terror' by a serial killer who has never been identified...
City of London Cemetery & Crematorium © Simon Montgomery
City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London
Travel Darkly visits London's biggest cemetery, in the north east of the city, where two of Jack the Ripper's victims are buried...
Arnos Vale Cemetery © Katherine Conlon
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England
This beautiful and tranquil cemetery in Bristol tells, among many others, the stories of medical discoveries and defeats. The graves there include those who succumbed to the cholera epidemic of 1849, as well as others who helped to prevent the deadly disease taking hold again...
Llandoger Trow © Bristol Record Office
Bristol’s Haunted Pubs
Limping boys, Elizabethan girls and long-haired slaves are just some of the ghosts thought to be hanging around Bristol's oldest pubs. Travel Darkly investigates...
The execution poster of Sarah Thomas, 1849 © Bristol Record Office
New Gaol, Bristol, England
Huge crowds once gathered outside the gatehouse of Bristol's prison to see criminals hanged for their crimes. Travel Darkly visits what's left of the jail, located just behind Bristol harbourside...
Ashton Court Mansion © Katherine Conlon
Ashton Court, Bristol, England
Headless horsemen, ghostly grey ladies and phantom hounds are all said to haunt the centuries-old Ashton Court in Bristol, so spooky the electricians wouldn't work there alone...
Clifford's Tower daffodils © Glen Bowman
Clifford’s Tower, York, England
In the twelfth century the Jewish community of York committed suicide in a tower which still stands in the centre of the city. Find out why and how to visit...
The human skin book © Katherine Conlon
M Shed, Bristol, England
Boy meets girl, falls in love. Sadly the girl doesn't love the boy back. Boy finds out girl has a new boyfriend and throws a large stone at girl's head. Ends up hanged at Bristol's New Gaol. After his death, the whole affair is documented in a rather grisly book which can be visited at Bristol's M Shed...