Worker with two key skills needed to look after UK’s strangest tourist attraction

A depository has a caller occupation opening and the palmy campaigner volition go a 'chief scorpion wrangler' — moving for The Blue Town Heritage Centre connected the Isle of Sheppey successful Kent

A depository has a caller occupation opening but with an accustomed specification.

The Blue Town Heritage Centre connected the Isle of Sheppey successful Kent is connected the hunt for a 'chief scorpion wrangler' to show Britain's largest scorpion colony. The museum, which sits other the historical Sheerness Dockyard wherever the oversea scorpions person resided for implicit 2 centuries, is seeking idiosyncratic with a passionateness for the creatures that tin turn up to 45mm and battalion a nasty sting.

Jenny Hurkett, the 75-year-old centre boss, told the BBC: "They are 1 of our island’s strangest tourer attractions. People travel from acold and wide to drawback a glimpse of them aft the prima goes down. But we privation idiosyncratic to show them to guarantee they are safe. No-one other seems to beryllium looking retired for them."

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These yellow-tailed scorpions are believed to person arrived successful Britain successful the aboriginal 1800s aboard ships carrying granite blocks utilized to conception the dockyard wall. Despite their tiny size, their sting is said to consciousness akin to a bee sting. The occupation advertisement notes that nary ceremonial qualifications are required but stresses a emotion for animals and peculiarly for creepy-crawlies.

"The palmy applicant volition beryllium required to inspect Britain’s largest scorpion colony erstwhile a period to guarantee its members are safe. You volition beryllium fixed entree to an ultraviolet torch to assistance you find our nippy neighbours.

"You volition besides beryllium required to deterioration headgear to support you against falling masonry. Our erstwhile incumbent wore an old-style explorer’s pith helmet."

It has been estimated the fig of scorpions successful the colony is present astir 15,000.

For anyone privation to spot the small critters, they volition request to caput to the Sheerness Dockyard walls astatine night, and having the close equipment, specified arsenic a UV torch volition help. Patience is besides cardinal arsenic these tiny beasts don't travel retired of the partition often, and erstwhile they bash it mightiness not beryllium for long.

They are besides peculiarly hard to spot owed to their size, truthful it is worthy looking retired for cracks and holes successful the wall, that they could look from. The scorpions devour woodlice and volition scurry distant astatine the show of humans. If you person nary luck spotting the scorpions, you tin ever caput crossed the thoroughfare to The Albion Bar, which serves an array of drinks. And if you are feeling peckish, determination is ever a food and spot store adjacent door.

If you inactive person nary luck, caput to the Blue Town Heritage Centre, wherever you volition beryllium capable to spot 2 of the scorpions. Interested applicants should get successful interaction with Blue Town Heritage Centre for this one-of-a-kind occupation opportunity.