Bad idea

Wonderful doctor until he started cutting up people, wrapping them up in paper and distributing the parts over the lowlands of Scotland

Morning Brian, For some reason my reply to you was not published. I spent many months looking into the "Tunnel theories" re the castle and I think that I can definitely say that they do not exist. There are always stories about tunnels in just about every castle in the UK, most of them false. Several pubs had wine cellars, many bricked up over the years, and this has led to "tunnel theories". There is a major sewage outlet almost under the Greyhound bridge. There is also a large tunnel complex under the bus station which takes the waste water from the town centre and runs under the houses in the direction of Skerton Bridge. When I was making the film I was lucky enough to be allowed access into it at the bus station and was given some old photographs of it prior to modernizing and repairing. If you look carefully at the bus station you will see a large turning circle to the left in front of the old captain's house and that was where the most recent access was gained.

Sorry, but I have never heard of him.

@@ChrisAbramduKes1937 hes the man that built Perrygrove railway

Thanks for that piece of info. I all my meetings with David who owns the attraction now he only mentioned that it was a couple who built it.

David does mention my wife and me, at 4:41. We are not forgotten! I should put up a video about how we built the railway.

@@Obbsserver thanks Michael, just making sure you got the credit you deserve, I remember having my name on the front of the train. Roan M :-)

I'm glad you said that I was born here & lived here all my life alot of this i didn't know & stuff I did know I only learnt recently. I wouldn't want to be from anywhere else though.

Because it would destroy some of the carvings on the walls. It's a listed building.

What a fantastic childhood you must have had. My local cinema in Cardiff used to be like that on a Saturday morning. I once had a gentleman called Andy Prior working for me at Wigan Pier and he was also the resident band in Blackpool Ballroon and one of the great thrills of my life was coming up on the Compton organ. Thanks for the memory. Kind regards Chris Richardson Brand

Hi Bill, I don't know how long ago it was but were you there when Joyce Wood was there. She married Mel Cooke and we have been friends for over fifty years. kind regards Chris

Hi Chris, name Joyce rings a bell but then again I was a Lancaster lad, was at Townley's in the 60's if that's any help. nice to chat with you anyway, chat soon , Bill.

Hi, just made a similar comment today concerning tunnels, ^ I've never heard about the one near the skate park, Merchants wasn't around at the time people were hung, it's the Golden lion where they had their last drink before they where taken up to Golgotha village and hung opposite the row of houses which you see in this video.

@@branthomas1621 Merchants goes back too 1688 I'm sure they were hangings in the town at the time and post 1688, lol?, I never heard they were hanged at merchants I heard they were then taken too the castle, again tho that's just what I heard :/

There were hangings at the castle I've heard that several times!

@@mrsweetscottyd7890 Hi, I just research this and found that the pub is using the date 1688, I'm shocked, from what I remember from talking to ex landlords and local historians it was first a merchants wine cellar, but not a pub, I seem to remember the building was excavated in more recent times, then converted into a pub. Yes hanging was done at the castle, but at some point they started to execute them at Golgotha instead, stopping off along the way at the "whittle" now the Golden Lion, there's also a story of a man who refused his last drink, a pardon for his execution was granted but it was too late - they'd already hung him, would have been saved if he had a tipple. There's a stone slab at Golgotha near the Wyresdale rd turn off where the gallows stood. Also, if you look at one of the oldest known maps of Lancaster (1600's) there's a clear picture of a gallows at the site of Our Ladies High School! but no history about it can be found, no local legends nothing. 1688 they say?? read this ; www.hpa.ltd/refurbishments-to-historic-pub/

@@branthomas1621 ahh how interesting, Lancaster is very historic!

As an Irishman who lives there for the Last 5 years I concur. Never met people like them. Friendly, easy to strike up a conversation with, helpful, kind and considerate. Yep, great place

And I have lived on four continents over the last 35 years and this is my favourite place hands down

Stewart Lancaster where please

One definite secret- there are no spooks in the castle, well except 1-2 prison officers.

He's proper naughty that man, not a kind decent business person At All. He took over the festival there which was for fundraising when it started and was run by a volunteer who does loads of fundraising and he took it all for himself after. They're all about making as much profit for themselves as possible and always have been it's a shame to put profit in front of local fundraising. I live right by here and won't use em now even though the beer is tasty