Guts and Gore in Nottingham

Went back up to Nottingham this weekend to start planning the RH2006 2009 Convention. Was invited on a Guts and Gore tour by the guide himself Ezekial Bone. So off I went with Charlotte from the RH2006 forum. It wasn't exactly the weather to be walking the streets of Nottingham, torrential rain and windy, all added to the atmosphere though. There were about another 15 hardy souls who set out from the Galleries of Justice.

The Guts and Gore Tour is not a ghost tour. Instead its a journey through the unsavoury and gruesome past of Nottingham. Starting on the steps (and site of execution) at the Galleries, you are treated to tales of execution, murder, crumbling graves and body snatching in the area around the Lace Market. Your guide is a master storyteller, eyewitness to many events, a rogue but one who can declaim Byron. There are no special effects or rigged frights; just tales to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, especially in St Mary's Churchyard, where in the dark and wind and rain you can imagine the sight of resurrectionists plundering the nearby graves.

The tour lasted about 1 and a half hours, long enough to give you a taste of Nottingham's less well know history.

Tours are held the first Saturday of each month and you should reserve places. The tours are run by Bone Corporation and you can visit their site here