WHITBY has built a large part of its tourism industry on its connection to Bram Stoker's celebrated novel Dracula.

The book was published in 1897 and 80 years later the BBC made a film following a group of ardent fans on a pilgrimage to Whitby, a key setting for the story.

In the 1977 BBC film, titled Whitby’s Dracula connection, we follow a coach ferrying members of the British Dracula Society to Whitby.

They had previously been to Transylvania, where the novel is also set.

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The short film about Dracula fans originally appeared on the BBC programmer Nationwide and was first broadcast on 19 May, 1977.

You can view the video here...