Derby’s Dracula - a self guided walking trail

Derby Museum & Art Gallery: see Joseph Wright’s portrait of Erasmus Darwin, the physician mentioned in Frankenstein.

Friar Gate Bridge: can you hear the whistles of phantom engines?

Pickford’s House: visit the Dracula exhibition and Bela Lugosi playbill.

50–51 Friar Gate: former gaol and gallows site.

The Old Friary: haunted by Benedictine friars.

Derby Hippodrome: Bela Lugosi played Dracula on stage here in September 1951.

Grand Theatre: Deane’s adaptation of Dracula opened here on 15 May 1924.

Corn Exchange: former theatre where Hamilton Deane performed.

Derby QUAD: cinema and gallery, home to many Dracula events.

Local Studies Library: information on crime, punishment and hauntings, housed in an old courtroom.

Ye Olde Dolphine Inne: oldest pub in Derby, c. 1580.

Derby Cathedral: the churchyard is haunted by executioner John Crossland.

Thrivemind Village: volunteer-led community hub and Dracbassador base.

The Jorrocks: haunted pub where a skull was found in the 1990s.

The Old Bell Hotel: this 17th century pub cements Derby’s reputation as the most haunted city in Britain.

Midland Hotel: where Bram Stoker and Henry Irving stayed in 1904.

Darley Fields: Hamilton Deane camped here.