Tickets from £6.00 per person the tour will last 1 hour 20 minutes approx
Tour times are at 7pm and 9pm available on a Friday and Saturday evening
Join us for this exclusive and special tour where you will get to uncover the most famous story in Edinburgh, the story of the Burke and Hare murders! In 1828 the infamous murderers William Burke and William Hare embarked on a killing spree which took the lives of Edinburgh citizens and then sold their bodies to the Medical School for money.
We are about to take you onto a journey which will reveal their bloody and horrid past, join us as we take you on a tour of some of the most famous landmarks of the famous duo, including where they lived. This is certainly an event not for the faint hearted! The tour is in association with West Port Tours, who aim to provide Edinburgh with the most informative and entertaining historical walking tours. Set against the backdrop of Edinburgh's Old Town and commencing from the famous Royal Mile, our professional tour guides will bring the most interesting tales to light and give you the real history behind the legends.
We begin your tour at 8pm when you will meet our team (meeting point detailed below), from here you will be taken on the tour which will last around an hour and 20 minutes. The Burke and Hare murders (also known as the West Port murders) were serial murders perpetrated in Edinburgh, Scotland, from November 1827 to 31 October 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to provide material for dissection.
Their purchaser was Doctor Robert Knox, a private anatomy lecturer whose students were drawn from Edinburgh Medical College. On the tour you will visit the site where the killers lived and where they committed 17 chilling murders, learn about 'Graverobbers' with a visit to Greyfriars Kirkyard and how Burke and Hare beat these gangs to provide the freshest corpses for the Medical School and hear about the gripping trial and how one of the men were the focus of Scotland's largest attended execution.
The Tour will include:
* Learn about the history of Edinburgh at the beginning of the 1800's; a time of great poverty, death, disease and crime and visit the site where the killers lived and where they committed 16 chilling murders.
* Learn about 'Graverobbers' with a visit to Greyfriars Kirkyard and how Burke and Hare beat these gangs to provide the freshest corpses for the Medical School.
Find out how Burke and Hare were finally caught and about the gripping trial and how one of the men were the focus of Scotland's largest attended execution.