Take a walk through what could be Liverpool's most haunted quarter! Listeners are encouraged to walk around the geo fence freely and experience what our walk has to offer! Each location a small stories attached to it which allows the listener to also get a tour of the history of the Georgian Quarter. 

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Step foot into St James Gardens, with over 58,000 bodies reported buried beneath these grounds. Go back in time to the creation of the quarry and experience the past in this brief audio journey of the form quarry and mass gravesite. Make sure to listen out for the cries of the damned.

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Go back in time and hear St James' Tunnel be created around you! Listen to the pickaxes carve away at the very stone you are walking on, the dirt be dug out from around you, and the coughs of the labours working tirelessly!

With a reported 58,000 bodies buried here, St James Garden has been argued to be one of the most harrowing and haunted places in Liverpool. Take a journey back in time to the creation of the quarry which later turned into a mass gravesite. These grounds are home to spirts of many of Liverpool's former residents from merchants to shipbuilders. Listen and you'll hear the sounds of bodies being dragged, horse drawn carriages carrying important materials, pickaxes, and more!

In 1773 the Chalybeate spring was discovered by quarrymen on the eastern side of what is now St James Gardens. Dr Houlston published an essay that year referring to the spring as the ‘Liverpool spa’ he wrote that the water ‘oozes through the veins of that soft yellow stone.’ Dr Houlston believed the best quality of the spring water was its ability to strengthen the whole habit. He wrote how it could most help those who suffered weaknesses after acute diseases. Unfortunately though the spring was discovered too late to help the town’s population fight off the consumption outbreak of 1772, which had been found by Dr John Bostock to be more fatal than many realised.

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William Huskisson was born on the 11th March 1770.In 1783, William and his brother Richard were adopted by their mother's uncle, Dr Richard Gem and went to live with him in Paris. Dr Gem had been physician to the Duke of Bedford during his embassy to France in 1762. In 1790 he became private secretary to the British Ambassador, Earl Gower, until 1792 when Britain withdrew its Ambassador from Paris.

Huskisson gave his allegiance to George Canning, who was a demanding master though a generous friend, here was the tie which finally bound him to Liverpool. In 1824 the plans for the Manchester to Liverpool railway were first made known to him by John Gladstone. The canals were proving insufficient for this area, the railroad would be a means of relief. Huskisson was a shareholder in the canals which had done so much for the counties of his birth and family. For honourable reasons, he declined, as Minister, to sit on the Committees of the House which discussed the details of the Railroad Bill, but in the House itself, he supported it warmly on the general principle ‘of affording additional facility and accommodation to trade’.

When the Railroad neared completion in the summer of 1830, Huskisson was ill  but he was determined to be present at the opening of the railway on the 15th September. During the ceremony, Huskisson, and some friends left their carriage during a halt, a warning was given that Stevenson's Rocket was approaching. Still feeble from illness Huskisson, attempting to board the carriage, fell across the line and was run over. At nine o'clock that night he died, in great agony, at Eccles Vicarage.

Random_Event: Coffin Opening, Bangs of the damned.

Unique sculpture that evokes that time in recent history when many immigrants passed through the city of Liverpool on their way to start a new life in Ireland and North America.

The Poor Law Institution, or Workhouse, there had been a shelter for Liverpool’s destitute from 1771 until 1928 when the revision of the Poor Laws brought the property on to the market. In 1800 one thousand inmates had been on its register, in 1900 over 4000, of whom over half were Catholics. Many of them were Irish people driven from their own country by famine. In 1930 the diocesan authorities purchased the nine acre site for £110,000. Sir Edwin Lutyens, (1869-1944) famous for his palatial country houses, memorials to the fallen of the First World War (including the Whitehall Cenotaph) and the monumental Viceroy’s palace in New Delhi, was commissioned to design a cathedral to contrast with the Gothic gem of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott which was rising at the other end of Hope Street, where building had started in 1904. Three years later the foundation stone was laid, on Whit Monday, 5 June 1933. Pathé News recorded this event. At the suggestion of Pope Pius XI the new cathedral was to be dedicated to Christ the King.

William Mackenzie was born near the town of Nelson, situated to the north east of Liverpool in 1794. After beginning work as a weaver he entered into civil engineering.  WILLIAM MACKENZIE’S TOMB
A few years back, while visiting Liverpool, I read an article in a daily newspaper about the curious pyramid-shaped tomb of William Mackenzie, which is situated in the graveyard of the former St. Andrew’s Church in Rodney Street. By some strange coincidence, I found myself in a restaurant in Rodney Street, that very evening, situated directly opposite the graveyard and in full view of Mackenzie’s tomb.



William Mackenzie was born near the town of Nelson, situated to the north east of Liverpool in 1794. After beginning work as a weaver he entered into civil engineering. He was first employed as a lock carpenter on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal 1n 1811 and later on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, Birmingham canals and the Liverpool and Manchester railway.

Mackenzie subsequently became a wealthy man amassing an estate of £340,000, equivalent to £42 million today. However, by all accounts, he became an inveterate gambler.  Legend has it he bet and lost his soul in a game of poker with the Devil. Nonetheless, he was said to have contrived a plan to outwit Satan. He figured that if he was never buried, Satan would not be able to lay claim to his spirit. As a result he was said to have been buried sitting upright in his tomb supposedly seated at a table with a winning hand of cards in his bony fingers.

Rodney Street is widely regarded as one of, if not the, most haunted streets in Liverpool and once you hear the stories, it’s easy to understand why. With over 40 catalogued ghosts on the street, it’s common to see or feel something not-quite-right when tiptoeing down the road. There’s also the mysterious case of Lantern Jaw, a tall and terrifying man with a huge square jaw, a long flowing cloak and a top hat, who wanders the street when darkness falls.

Polly is a female spirit who haunts the former nurses home, dressed all in white and mourning her tragic death. Or keep an eye out for a well-dressed woman who stalks Rodney Street with a young girl – these spirits only began to walk the mortal realm when bones of an adult and a child were unearthed by workmen in St Andrew’s Cemetery.

The Philharmonic Dining Rooms is a public house built from 1898-1900 by the Liverpudlian architect Walter W Thomas. Outside of the pub the Shiverpool tour starts where they deliver spirited storytelling and immersive entertainment about ghost stories around Liverpool. In this part of Liveprool you listen out for the wheeping bride trying to catch a cab at night!

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