... History alive in ‘workhouse’ HISTORY came alive in Ripon at the weekend when part of the old Sharow View workhouse, was opened to the public for the first time. Room at the Allhallowgate premises was one of a number of properties in Ripon being specially ...

... The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law THIS is Britain’s first workhouse museum in its authentic location. It is housed in the men’s casual wards of the former Ripon Union workhouse and portrays the treatment of vagrants 100 years ago. Visitors can imagine ...

... cheer to the Workhouse tomorrow as part of a festive fund-raising event. Oliver Twist look-alikes and would-be urchins will also be putting in an appearance in a competition organised as part of the day’s fun. The former Victorian workhouse on Allhallowgate ...

... Christmas in OLIVER Twist look-alikes and would-be urchins will be helping mark Christmas in the Workhouse at Ripon next weekend. The former Victorian workhouse - now part of Ripon’s Law and Order Museum Trail - is the venue for a Christmas Fair on Saturday ...

... nciluded a workhouse ¢ ~--Ng today in a comfortable private home of great character with modern fixtures and fittings throughout and adjoining BRANCH AGENTS FOR outbuildings with potential for Nationwide Building Socien leisure facilities/granny annexe ...

... MONDAY ® Ripon: Talk on the History of the Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire with Anthony Chadwick, assistant workhouse curator . 2.30 pm, Workhouse Museum. Free book in advance. Telephone (01423) 556188 ...

... those enjoying Christmas in the Workhouse last Saturday. The Greystone pupil received a cash prize for his convincing impersonation of the Charles tion organised as part of a fundraising Christmas fair at the Workhouse Museum. Jill Wilkinson, of Ripon ...

... Museum talk RIPON Museum Trust has arranged an afternoon talk at its Workhouse Museum on Monday at 2.30 pm. - Assistant curator Anthony Chadwick will be speaking on ‘The History of Workhouses in Ripon and Yorkshire.’ ...

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... authentic touch to tomorrow's Christmas Fair on the site of the former Ripon Union Workhouse. The event takes place in the atmospheric setting of the Vagrants' Cell Block, The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law in Allhallowgate. Prizes will be awarded to the most appealing ...

... Forget the fair RIPON Museum Trust has announced the cancellation of its planned Christmas Fair in the Workhouse because it clashes with a similar event being held in the Cathedral on the same day, November 23. ...

... treadmill, the crank and picking oakum. The Ripon Workhouse, Museum of Poor Law in Allhallowgate was opened to the public in 1996 and is established in the Men's Casual Wards of the Victorian workhouse buildings. The 14 cells, the ablution rooms, the old ...