Timeball Tower Museum Ghost Hunt - Kent - 9th March 2013
8.00pm until 2.00am · Tickets £35 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Timeball Tower Museum in Deal, Kent with Ghost Hunt Events.
Participate in Séances, Vigils, EVP Experiments, Scientific & Metaphysical experiments, Ouija boards, Automatic writing, table rapping and much more.
The Timeball Tower Museum is a fantastic venue, with a long maritime history which has plenty of active spirit energy, one not to be missed.
We encourage you to bring your cameras (and other ghost hunting equipment), you never know what you may capture!
History
Deal Timeball Tower is a Victorian maritime Greenwich Mean Time signal located on the roof of a waterfront four-storey tower in the coastal town of Deal, in Kent. It was established in 1855 by the Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy in collaboration with Charles V. Walker, superintendent of telegraphs for the South Eastern Railway Company. It was built by the Lambeth firm of engineers Maudslay and Field. The timeball, which, like the Greenwich timeball, fell at 1 pm precisely, was triggered by an electric signal directly from the Royal Observatory.
Before it became a timeball tower, the tower was a semaphore tower used to signal to the ships at anchor in the Dover channel.
From 1821 to 1831, the Tower carried a semaphore mast, which was used by the Coast Blockade for the Suppression of Smuggling to pass information along the coast. The Blockade was under the auspices of the Navy, and was manned by their personnel.
The Timeball Tower stands on the site of an earlier Shutter Telegraph. Ths was one of a chain of telegraph stations between the Admiralty in London and the Naval Yard at Deal. The telegraph line opened in 1796 and closed in 1814. Its purpose was to allow rapid communication between London and Deal, the latter being an important Naval anchorage during the Napoleonic Wars.
Ghostly Activity
Many custodians of the building have heard ghostly footsteps and unusual sounds, none of which had any rational answer.
View all our evidence from this location.
Read the investigation report from 27th January 2012
Read the investigation report from 23rd June 2012
Read the investigation report from 9th March 2013
This location is available for private bookings, see Group Events for more information and pricing.
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