Another Ghost tour!
Due to public demand, a 2nd Ghost Tour is organised.
FULL DETAILS IN 17.04.2009
The ghost tour isn’t spooks or spectres; ghouls, phantoms or banshees. Most of those are the inventions of legend or fiction. This evening’s ghosts arise from the River Lagan’s unmatched legacy of maritime and industrial heritage. We’ll be navigating the remaining vast artefacts, and if the spirits of history aren’t lurking there, in the wharfs, quays and dry docks, they’ll be prowling our thoughts and minds as we ponder the past.More ghosts were conceived by the Titanic tragedy than by any other maritime disaster in history. Nearly 1,500 people perished and many of their ghosts are said to live on. But during several hundred years of shipbuilding here on the Lagan, more than twice or even three times that number of people died building three thousand other ships. They’re long departed to another world but tonight we’ll meet them in their stories of hardship, toil and heroic innovation - all written on the wind. It’s said that the River Lagan’s ubiquitous seagulls are the souls of the shipyard workers, returned to patrol the past. In the darkness, while the gulls are silent, there’s a hushed clamour, not of phantoms, but of the visions they’re guarding.