October 30th
Lots of nature walks today! We started off at Black Park, where Hammer filmed for multiple films, including the carriage ride in Brides of Dracula and Creature’s escape into the woods in Curse of Frankenstein! We even found the lake where the old man’s grandson searches for mushrooms! Luckily, Creech did not kill anyone this time *pats his head* what a good boy!
Then, we went to Surrey Hills. Christopher Lee’s ashes were scattered here according to findagrave.com! Not only that, but Hammer’s Hound of the Baskervilles was filmed in Surrey as well, so we didn’t go walking there but it was in the same area!
After that, we drove to… WHITSTABLE! We’re actually going exploring there tomorrow, but our accommodation is in Canterbury, which is right next to it.
And… they named a pub after Peter Cushing in the town, so of course we HAD to have our dinner there!! It's this gorgeous building that used to be a cinema and is now a pub. I had some lovely fish and chips and we even got to take one of the menu cards home with us 😆 I was expecting the food to not be really good cause well. It’s an English pub. but it was super tasty actually! And of course it was really sweet to see how they still pay tribute to Cushy 🥰
And Tiny Tarkin was there, obviously :D
(Also, I don’t drink alcohol but we had to pour one out for Peter with a cider. Bottoms up!)
I can’t wait to fanboy even more tomorrow when we actually go and walk around there!! Hoping to take lots of pictures 😆😆😆
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