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Home > Heritage > Swashbuckling Pirates & Time Travellers Go…Pirate Academy

Swashbuckling Pirates & Time Travellers Go…Pirate Academy

By Caroline King - August 7, 2011Posted in : Heritage

English Heritage's Time Traveller's Go...Pirate Academy When: 13th & 14th August 2011, 11am-5pm

Where: Scarborough Castle, North Yorkshire

£: Adults 4.80, concessions 4.30, children 2.90, family ticket 12.50 and English Heritage members go free.  All children are welcome to join in the Time Travellers Go… events.  An additional £1 will be charged on standard admission for every child, member and non member, to help fund this entertainment activity.

What is it?

Join a duo of fighting Pirates at Scarborough Castle.  See the Pirates go head to head in a clash of cutlasses and meet the real lady Pirate, Mary Read too.  Plus plenty of hands on activities for children, arts and crafts, dressing up, junior Pirate sword skills, hornpipe dancing and artefact handling throughout the day.

More info: English Heritage

Tagged With: English Heritage, Pirate Academy, Scarborough Castle, Time Travellers Go, Yorkshire, Yorkshire events

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