#ghostlybath

To celebrate the release of Bridgerton today, I will be featuring a few of the locations used in the filming, I am working on a feature of a Bridgerton/ Paranormal nature, so watch this space!

This is Lady Danburys Home. The Holburne Museum - Bathwick - Bath Since 1916 the Museum has been housed in the former Sydney Hotel at the end of Great Pulteney Street. The original design for the Hotel, prepared by Thomas Baldwin in 1794, was a two-storey building which would serve the pleasure gardens, known as Sydney Gardens, laid out by Baldwin beyond. The gardens remain the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens (or Vauxhall) in the country. After Baldwin was bankrupted his design for the hotel was not implemented. Instead a three-storey building was designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The foundation stone was laid in 1796 and the building was ready by 1799. Visitors entered the gardens through the Hotel. It has been used as a location for many films & tv series, most recently seen in Bridgerton as Lady Danburys house. Hauntings - Reputed to be haunted by a little boy.. Has anyone heard any other stories?

Margaret Royal - The founder of the Bath Ghost Walks In the 1970's, Margaret Royal was a lady in Bath with a great deal of psychic knowledge. She began to investigate and acquire stories from the witnesses of paranormal events in Bath. She became well known in the city and was always on the radio and tv to tell of her latest findings. Along with her friend, Hilary Bolwell, who was also a psychic medium, they began to unearth a wealth of paranormal activity at various sites in the city. During their tours of Bath, to the various supposed haunted locations they would both be able to sense and be aware of the spirits of the past. Eventually they discovered an area of Bath which was so powerfully psychic that ordinary people with no particular psychic training or ability could with some guidance be made aware that there is more to heaven & earth than what we normally know about. Margaret Royal decided to create a ghost walk starting from the Garricks Head and heading into the most haunted parts of Bath, telling the various stories she had uncovered on the way. It was on this that it was discovered that the Theatre Royal and the Garricks Head shared the same spirits.

She wrote three books,True Stories of the Ghosts of Bath with Ian Girvan (1974) Local Ghosts (1976) and Bristol Ghosts with Ian Girvan (1977) The Bath Ghost Walks still run today.