I'm chatting with Lori Ann Bailey about the ghosts that haunt New Slains Castle, as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula which it is said he was inspired upon a visit there. Below are some images I took on a trip to New Slains a few years ago. Take a listen to find out the creepy and...
Slains Castle (also known as New Slains Castle, because slightly confusingly there’s another Slains Castle nearby!) is perched precariously on the cliffs just outside of the village. I t actually began as a 16th-century tower house that was also a Scots Baronial mansion at one time, before...
New Zealand.Born in Hull, William Vincent had been involved as a journalist in the radical Chartist movements of the 1830’s. He then decided to depart for New Zealand, arriving there on theSlains Castlein 1841. Here he became actively involved in the newspapers of the new colony, helping ...