Whitby, Yorkshire, UK 2nd October, 2013. Living Dead dolls and scary poster at the UK'S Biggest Goth & Alternative Weekend. Whitby. Goths, romantics and macabre fans travelled over the moors for the Whitby Goth Weekend, which has become their spiritual home.


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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