Blackpool Tower Dungeon has a new show - the Bathtub Bride - a shocking, historic case which occurred in the resort
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00:00Hello it's Richard Hunter at the Blackpool Gazette I'm with Jamie Humphrey
00:04the performance supervisor at the Blackpool Tower Dungeon and they've got
00:08a new exhibiting a new show in fact opening next week which is particularly
00:13pertinent to Blackpool and is all about a serial killer. Jamie what's the new
00:17show all about and what is it? So for Halloween this year we are going to be
00:22discovering the story it's quite local to us so it's based on Regent Street
00:26obviously in Blackpool just by the Regent Cinema there used to be a B&B
00:30there back in the day and basically our Halloween story you'll be taken into the
00:36B&B you will meet our fabulous character Mary Wade who is a medium and spiritual
00:42guide and basically you're going to join her on a journey to try and like pass
00:46over Alice Burnham who is one of our like serial killers victims and so the
00:53idea is that we're going to try and help her pass over to the light but
00:57things go slightly wrong and there's a few twists and turns as we go along but
01:01it's really pertinent to us here at Blackpool because it's the first time
01:05we've done a show that's like local to Blackpool itself a lot of our shows are
01:09just based on like kind of Lancaster and other areas whereas this is based in
01:13Blackpool so it's a really good opportunity to kind of home in on our
01:17own historical like facts and figures so we will be meeting George James Smith
01:22who is a serial killer that was called the Bathtub Bride Killer and basically
01:27he used to marry women take out insurance policies and drown them in
01:31baths and Alice is quite famous here because they used forensics for the
01:36first time to kind of catch him out so the bathtub was taken in they use an
01:41example they actually got a woman to kind of be pulled under the water so
01:45they could see what kind of effect and she actually passed out during that in
01:48the court and stuff and yeah he got trialed and found guilty and was hung so
01:54we're setting this story five years later and we're trying to kind of get
01:58rid of all that bad energy in the guest house so yeah hopefully it will be
02:02spooky fun and just to remind people when does this show begin so the show
02:07starts on the 28th of September that's when our Halloween celebration starts
02:12the 20th of September so we are the home of Halloween so some of our like regular
02:16shows get like little like new formations like Halloween versions and
02:21we have pumpkins everywhere we've got like a hundred and fifty pumpkins
02:24arriving on the 27th to decorate the place so yeah everything starts on the
02:2928th and that goes through to the 3rd of November excellent
02:32thanks Jamie yeah look forward to that