It's been a busy week and I have a backlog of pictures to put up on here of different pumpkin related food and drink, but I thought I'd start with a post about my activities on Halloween itself.
(And if you feel the need to sing along to The Jellybottys' song 'Peter Cushing Lives In Whitstable', please do... and if you have no idea what I'm talking about... google it!)
So, anyway, I went with a couple of frined to the quaint and quiet Kentish town of Whitstable that still retains it's sleepy local charm and hasn't succumbed like many other towns to being a high street full of the same large corporate chains of shops. And being Halloween we thought it appropriate for a pilgrimage to the town that Peter Cushing called home in his latter years.
Usually our trips start with a brief look around the Whitstable Town Museum which has a small display cabinet of Peter Cushing memorablia. (They had a lot more, but it was auctioned off a few years back!) The museum was always worth a visit and had always been free in the past, but upon our arrival we were told there was now an entry fee and as we were only intending on looking at one display which we had seen before anyway, we passed on the museum.
(We had also previously done the Peter Cushing guided walk for which there is a booklet and I would recommend that any fan does this on their visit.)
However amidst our meandering around the town we did stop off in the recently opened Wetherspoons pub in the town. This impressive building was a formed art deco theatre and later a bingo hall and Wetherspoons have done a great job in renovating it and naming it after Whitstable's most famous resident. We also stopped off in the Tudor Tea Rooms where the late great horror actor used to dine every day in his retirement,and saw the memorial over the table where he would always sit.
So in all a great day out and a wonderful way to remember one of England's finest actors and a true gentleman.
So below are just a few photos of the aforementioned memorials to one of Horror's greats.
Saturday 5th November 2011
