Experience a bygone age … and bring the past to life.

Experience an amazing 125 years of British social living history magically brought back to life. Discover 3 floors and over 150,000 nostalgic artefacts plus virtual and interactive exhibits. Journey through history with superbly recreated life size street scenes & shop displays with evocative sounds and smells of the past.

Explore and Enjoy

Come along and allow yourself to be transported back in time as you wander through the cobbled streets of the 1930’s.Visit the ironmongers, pawnbrokers, chemist shop and much, much more!

Victorians

Our interactive ‘Audience with Queen Victoria’ display gives a fascinating insight into Victorian life. Learn all about royal life, Victorian inventions and much more from Queen Victoria herself!

World War II evacuee display

Come and see our World War II Evacuee Display - fully interactive you’ll discover what it was life was like during the evacuation period with many exhibits and what rations were available and what was allowed.

An amazing journey…

Explore our life size street scenes and shop displays. This award winning experience recaptures our amazing past with superb displays and fantastic memorabilia dating from 19th century and is considered to be one of the best social history collections in the UK.

Journey through time.

A further range of interactive displays heightens your journey into a lost world that is certain to be enjoyed by young alike. There’s plenty of fascinating facts from skilfully-modelled characters from over the last 100 years showing choice insights into life during their times. Imagine yourself being transported back in time as you walk through our larger than life 500 year old building that houses plenty of secrets. It really is the place where the past comes to life!

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