Woman. girl wearing purple goth costume with eye mask Whitby, Yorkshire, 2013. Trinity Stark, wearing fancy dress, a mask and red wig at the UK'S Biggest Goth & Alternative Weekend. Whitby. Goths, romantics and macabre fans at the Whitby Goth Weekend, which has become their spiritual home. As well as Goths, there are all manner of weird and wonderful characters with faces obscured at the Halloween Special founded by Jo Hampshire in 1994.
Thousands of steam-punks goths, Victoriana, Cybergoth and Romanticism flocked to the North Yorkshire seaside town to attend gigs and events and to take part in celebrating Gothic culture."The 19-year-old festival has ballooned since its beginnings as a gathering of penpals who met via NME magazine. The organisers chose Whitby as home of the biannual event because of its links with Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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