30/10/2026
🎃 With Halloween creeping closer, we’ve been digging into the darker side of Blake House: eerie basements, gruesome pastimes and unexplained experiences, are our tenants really the only ones here?
🕯️ 18 Blake Street, The Portal - Built around 1789, our Georgian building is home to an office rumoured to be a “portal to the other side”. Strange sensations, unusual chills and a shadowy basement, just a draughty old building, or something more?
🐓 66 Bootham – A Gruesome Past. Our Bootham building stands on a site once associated with cockfighting. In 1760, rioters reportedly drank the original Cockpit House dry before demolishing it. Office disputes seem rather tame by comparison!
💀 2A St Martin’s Lane – Buried Secrets. Close to a historic churchyard, archaeological discoveries nearby have included human remains and a collection of bones. A chilling thought for anyone working late…
🏛️ Roman Remains & Haunted Neighbours, with Roman coins discovered on Blake Street and centuries of history beneath York’s streets, our neighbourhood has plenty of tales to tell.
☕ The clocks have gone back and the evenings are getting darker, but we’ve got cosy heating, warm lighting and hot chocolate on tap to keep the chills at bay. 👻☕
Have you ever experienced anything unexplained in York? Tell us below; we’d love to hear your spooky stories.
Have a great weekend, enjoy Halloween and hopefully we will see you on Monday 🎃👻🧹🧙
