EVENT

Evening Guided Tour and Dinner – Tourtuous Tour of Town

4 June 2015

Swashbuckling seafaring stories, unscrupulous profit making privateers, and gruesome grisly tales from the gallows, are just some of the stories retold.

The medieval art of “mulling” and the highly lucrative wine trade, when local merchants intrinsically linked Smuggling, Privateering and Legalised Trade together, turning them into millionaires virtually overnight are recounted.

The Black Death or Bubonic Plague of the 14th century, carried by rats as they scurried through the steep venelles linking the port with the merchant’s houses, wiped out half of Guernsey’s population. The swiftness of the disease, the terrible pain, and the grotesque appearance of the victims, all served to make the plague especially terrifying. The victims’ final hours were far from pleasant. You will witness the barbaric final minutes of the last person to be hanged in the capital, and get involved with the extraordinary duel of 1780, whilst visiting sites of haunted houses and frequently seen spirits in the dimly lit alleyways.

The whole evening finishes with a meal at Christies.

There are 35 places available for this event and they will be allocated on a first come first served basis. To reserve a place please accept the invitation on Eventbrite by 1 May 2015. The menu will be sent a little closer to the event to enable food to be pre-ordered.

This event will be a charge of £15 per person for this event please make cheques payable to the NED Forum and send them to Steve Hogg, Treasurer of the Finance Sector Non-Executive Director Forum LBG, Portholme, Rue de la Cache, Castel GY5 7RD.

This event is for NED Forum Members only. To become a member please click here.