A SPOOKTACULAR time was enjoyed by one and all at Haslemere Museum’s action-packed celebration of Hallowe’en last Friday.

The popular annual event, jointly organised by museum education officer, Kay Topping, and the Haslemere Visitor Information Centre, culminated in a grand twilight parade through the town.

Junior enthusiasts dressed up in their spookiest costumes and brought along their own pumpkins to carve at a Haunted Hallowe’en workshop in the afternoon.

They also tried their hand at creating hanging paper ghosts, bats and scary masks.

Members of the museum’s HYPE club were on hand to help out and the museum volunteers served up suitably spine-chilling home-made cakes and refreshments in a “Witches’ Tea Room”.

As evening fell, town mayor Melanie Odell led the parade made up of mini-witches, ghosts and skeletons, all carrying their carved pumpkins, along the High Street to Charter Walk.

“We are delighted to host this event with the Haslemere Visitor Information Centre,” Kay said.

“It works really well. It is always wonderful to see all the families enjoying themselves and the children really getting involved with the arts and crafts, as well as the pumpkin carving.”

The spooky fun continued on Saturday with a late opening as part of a nationwide Museums at Night event, which featured a special screening of Hollywood blockbuster Secret of the Tomb.

More than 80 visitors enjoyed exploring the dark galleries decorated for Hallowe’en at 6pm before the start of the third in the ‘Night at Museum’ films.

Many had dressed up specially and brought torches with them to spotlight the ghostly exhibits.