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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The history of mental illness in Bristol has been explored at Glenside museum, housed in the old lunatic asylum's chapel. Travel Darkly went to have a look...