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31/10/2026

Great afternoon on our historic pub tour with the boys from Cumbria on a stag celebration

31/10/2026

Sounds Eerie😱

Flax House at 83-91 Adelaide St, Belfast was a former Linen Mill which is believed to be haunted by the ghost of a 16 year old girl called Helena Blunden 👻. Records show that Helena died following a tragic accident on the 14 April 1912 after breaking her neck tripping on a floor brush left at the top of a flight of stairs. She died on the very same day the RMS Titanic sank. Only a few months earlier in the same mill was making table cloths for the Titanic’s first class dining room. Helena was a diligent, popular worker and had worked in the mill for over a year. She often worked up to her ankles in water but as she would say, ‘Sure to God, and you can get used to anything if you have to.’

Helena was an accomplished singer and had dreams and aspirations to be a performer and escape the harsh life of the mill. On the fateful day Helena needed to be home quickly as she had tickets for a concert at the Grand Opera House that evening and was to have an audition herself. A musical impresario had heard a recording of her voice and if he liked her she would sing in the newly opened Dunmurry Theatre. She had also gone to the trouble of making a recording of her favorite classic song “Pie Jesu” to promote her talent. The recording was made 3 months before her death and is over 108 years old (posted in Facebook Stories). The tragic loss of potential for what she could have become was felt deeply by her friends in the mill and by her devoted family

Over the years workers based in the old mill building where Helena died are haunted by unexplained encounters. Strange eerie sightings 😱– women’s voices, lights and sounds. All have been reported and continue to be monitored. Many say her ghost still walks the mill. Doors have reportedly opened and closed without reason. Lights have been seen flickering and unexplained noises and movements noted 👻

The sightings of Helena's ghost are so frequent a live web camera was placed in the building and left on for 24 hours, seven days a week, for over a year. During this time Helena’s apparition was spotted between eight to twelve times a month. People from all around the world tuned in to see Helena and she became that world star 🌟

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25/10/2026

Don't forget to put your clocks 🔙

Public clocks were once an important part of everyday life in Belfast but they also tracked many events throughout history of Belfast.

They are time capsules that trace the development and growth of Belfast through the Victorian and Edwardian periods. There are clocks all across the city, from town and church clocks to those on memorials and private businesses.

In the 1880s they were used for time- keeping, meeting points and to mark major historical events. The famous Albert Clock was once part of the language of romance in the city where courting couples initially met (at other times it was the red light district)

They were vital for those living and working in industrial cities and towns. Many people couldn’t afford to buy time-pieces or watches and relied on public clocks to tell the time, except for looking at the sun.

In Belfast, many private businesses took advantage of the niche market of time- keeping. It would have been expensive to put up a clock in those days but it also would have added prestige to their building and business. People would have made a habit of visiting certain buildings in order to find out the time.

It was also an early method of advertising but the main thing was to provide the public with accurate time-keeping.

You don't need a DeLorean to travel back in time! Just book a tour with us... 😁

24/10/2026

Halloween hauntings 🦇☠️👻🎃🦇

The ghost of Galloper Thompson👻

“When I die, do not put me in the ground – put me where I can be free to ride my horse, to visit my lands, to call my hounds and to visit my Jennymount. I would rather have my horse and Jennymount than the highest seat in heaven” (Newletter, 1936) 🐎👻

These were the words of the dying Gordon “Galloper” Thompson (nicknamed so due to time spent on horseback on the grounds of the family estate and his daily ride to work at Jennymount Mill).

He was a member of the Thompson family who lived at Jennymount House in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were well known bankers but also owned the nearby Jennymount Mill (off York Road). According to legend, the apparition 👻 of ‘Galloper’ on horseback 🐎, with head tucked under his arm, can be seen in the area around Alexandra Drive/Shore Road in the North Belfast. He is headless, after being decapitated in an accident in Jennymount Mill, while fixing one of the weaving machines.

Sightings of Galloper in the early 1900s were frequent and even today many strange or unusual happenings are blamed on him. In the Victorian period the tale would involve the ghost borrowing horses from stables at night and leaving them back by the dawn, filthy and tired, to the bemusement of their owners.

Generations of children in the area were warned that ‘the Galloper’ would get them if they were home late.👻

23/10/2026

Halloween Hauntings 🦇🎃👻☠️

Biddy Farrelly is otherwise known as “The Ghost of Smithfield Market”. Her story is a hauntingly romantic one, but also a tragic tale of a love lost. For Biddy it wasn’t a case of “better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” as she never recovered from her broken heart and forever pinned for her life’s true love, a man called Luke White

Luke White was born in the slum entry of Bell's Lane (now Garfield St). He grew up among the ballad and almanac sellers and learnt to read the books in which he was dealing. Biddy Farrelly, who was a sweet young pauper girl, was a childhood sweetheart of Luke. He was an ambitious man however and left Belfast to chase bigger dreams in Dublin, where he found big success. He went on to become a millionaire owning 4 bookshops and an auction business. He subsequently married well into Dublin society and became the High Sheriff.

Tragically Luke died in 1824, leaving Biddy a small fortune. Unfortunately Biddy was so overcome with grief at his death that she took to 'drowning her sorrows' in the local bars around Smithfield. Within a year Biddy had died deliberately drinking herself to death in the hope of reuniting with her lover in heaven. Unfortunately, instead of meeting Luke in the afterlife, Biddy’s earthbound spirit is said to walk around Gresham Street searching for her first and only love

Every August Smithfield hosted the week long ‘Grand Lamas Fair’ (not to be confused with the Ballycastle Fair). Biddy is said to walk around with a bundle of ballads under her arm, looking for Luke. Those who have sighted the smiling ghost of Biddy, were never frightened and it always brought smiles to their faces. Her jovial spirit maybe warmed in the knowledge that Luke never forgot her nor she him.

There was a lovely Café called Biddy Farrelly’s, keeping her name ‘alive’ in the he❤️rt of old Smithfield. Unfortunately it's also a ghost of the past 👻

The murals depicting the old Smithfield market (photo 5) are by the very talented artists and

22/10/2026

Yesterday was wet and wild for our "Pack Up Your Troubles" walking tour of West Belfast but it's a big 'thumbs up' for our hearty Polish students who were determined to battle though the elements 🌧️☔

21/10/2026

Great Scott, what's the fastest way to Heaven? 🙏🚖

During our visit to the beautiful Clonard Monastery today on a "Pack up your Troubles" tour we came across one of the most iconic cars in all of movie history.

The Delorean car is another of Belfast's ill-fated icons that we just love.

"Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one". Dr Emmet (Doc) Brown

19/10/2026

This absolutely amazing piece of street art is in Pottinger’s Entry, Belfast and painted by the incredibly talented artist Whoamirony from London, where he has painted many breathtaking industrial scale street artworks. He painted this beautiful mural (called 'The spirit of Commerce') freehand with spray paints, like an oil painter with a brush. He is a self-taught artist who says “Art school was the best thing never to have happened to me”.

‘Irony’ is helping to change the face of Belfast with his world-class art. There is a montage of his other fabulous art works around Belfast on photo number 4. This latest mural took him a full 5 days and details a female figurehead which replicates similar fixtures on the prow of ships throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, which brought hope and goodwill to the ship’s crew. This is a reference to Belfast’s maritime tradition and a time when ships used to moor at quays alongside 'the entries', when the Farset River ran down what is now Belfast’s High Street (photo 5)

The mural also reflects a period in Belfast’s history when skilled craftsmen came from countries around the world, to help build new churches and other buildings such as with their unique and detailed ceramic façades and mosaic floors. Other features of the mural such as the street lamps and wall flowers match up with the real flowers and lamps in the 'entry' and give it very much a Victorian era feel to these ancient passageways which date back to 1630.

A truly amazing piece of art which reflects the history of Belfast 👏🙌. It is part of the project, a collaboration between , and

30/09/2026

RIP Esther Rantzen 🙏

28/09/2026

We're ready for Blue Lights season 4 🚨

BBC One starting Tuesday 🚔👮‍♀️👮‍♂️

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