Liverpool St James’ Cemetery Gardens Tour

Highlights

• Begin your Journey outside Liverpool’s most famously haunted hostelry The Philharmonic Pub, surrounded by the former hospitals, asylums, workhouses and children’s homes once served by the Necropolis. View the surrounding neighbourhood that envelops the Dormitory of the Dead, St James’ Cemetery.
• Enter Liverpool’s Père Lachaise, City of the Dead, St James’ Secret Garden Cemetery…
• Listen to your guide masterfully weave ghostly tales and gruesome fables, medical accounts of the realities of the many Public Health crisis experienced by the city’s residents all swept up in the melancholy moods that pass through this great green lung…
• Absorb Liverpool’s awe-inspiring Anglican Cathedral “head and shoulders of the City” from the underbelly of this sea soaked sanctuary, arguably one of the most spectre-acular vantage points!
• Experience the otherworldly soul of St. James’ Cemetery Gardens after dark, where nearly 58,000 of Liverpool’s great and good are entombed.
• Visit the venerable Chalybeate spring- where Liverpool’s only remaining natural spa waters flow from the rock bed of the town – believed to possess enlivening healing properties, still enjoyed by the residents to this day.
• Marvel at the impressive mausoleums and shrines including William Huskisson- the first victim to fall beneath the grinding might of a locomotive train- whose ghoulish presence still haunts his final resting place…
• Have a renewed vigour for life and the living, for it is when we are surrounded by the dead, it is thus that we can feel most alive!

Tour Duration & Location

The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes but can go over and last up to 120 minutes (or eternity) depending on group size and pace so please allow for this.

• Start Location Outside The Philharmonic Pub, Hope Street - Please make sure to arrive 10 minutes prior.
• End Location Anglican Cathedral, Upper Duke Street, Liverpool City Centre.

Things to remember & Accessibility

Please note that you should bring your own torch. The Cemetery location is very dark during the Autumn and Winter months and the space is not lit with street lights.

Wellington boots / protective grippy footwear is essential as it can get muddy and slippy in the cemetery.

This tour is not recommended for those not firm on their feet, are visually impaired or have a delicate disposition. The team will try and accommodate those with mobility issues or disabilities. Please make any accessibility requirements known to the provider upon booking. 

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