Beamish Open Air Museum
Stanley
a living working experience of life as it was in the early 1800s and 1900s complete with shops, pubs and horse drawn carriages and trams
Birmingham Back to Backs
Birmingham
experience an evocative and intimate insight into living in Back to Back housing from the1840s to the 19790s
Derwent Pencil Museum
Keswick
local graphite mining led to the growth of the pencil industry. The museum gives an in depth guide to pencils and pencil making down the centuries
The Workhouse
Southwell
built in 1842 as the last resort for the destitute, the stories of the people who lived and worked here help tell the poignant history
Bodmin Jail
Bodmin
gain an insight into the Cornish penal life over the centuries. This includes evening ghost walks and a look into the cold, dank cells
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chalfont St. Giles
focusing on vernacular buildings – the past houses and workplaces of ordinary people that are gradually disappearing from the landscape
Hawkshead Grammar School
Hawkshead
dating back to the sixteenth century, a unique collection of historic artefacts relating to the ancient school and its pupils
The Gnome Reserve & Wild Flower Garden
West Putford
home to over 1000 gnomes and pixies, wildflowers, herbs, grasses and ferns with a family picnic area