We visited Newcastle Castle to learn about its history and see what activities they have in store for the half term holiday.
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00:00So we're in the castle keep of Newcastle Castle. It's an 11th century castle built by Henry II,
00:08which is open today as a visitor attraction, so people can come and visit as a museum or as an
00:13event space. It was deemed to be the most haunted place in Newcastle, which will serve over the
00:20Halloween half-term as well if you want to come. A haunted castle and an October half-term.
00:27Surely there must be some fun spooky activities for the kids leading up to Halloween.
00:31Across half-term, so from the 27th through to the 2nd, we've got Halloween activities where
00:37families are encouraged to come and come in costume, grab an activity pack, come around and
00:44meet spooky characters, do spooky things. One of our members of the castle team will be allowing
00:52children to make, or adults, to make spooky monsters out of clay, decorate a gravestone,
00:57which will decorate this room here, making bats with pigs and things like that. Lots of fun
01:03Halloween activities and crafts there. Halloween's increasingly not just for kids though, so surely
01:09there must be something there for the adults as well. We have films in the evenings for adults,
01:15things like Sweeney Todd, The Exorcist, Nosferatu, which is the first vampire film ever,
01:20and Dracula from 1958, which is the first horror film. So loads of spooky adult activities in the
01:27evenings as well. Well Halloween half-term sounds amazing, but surely with all the fun tours and
01:32activities throughout the year, it could get expensive to keep coming back? You buy a ticket
01:38to come in, but once you have that it lasts you all year for the rest of the season. So you can come
01:42and go as much as you want, so if you wanted to visit every day you could, or if you wanted to
01:46just visit the once, that's more than welcome as well. Not included is our evening events,
01:52they're a separate ticket, but things like the Halloween activities are included within your
01:58visit to the castle.