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Meet the Victorians - 19th & 20th June

The activities on offer will be the ever popular Victorian Classroom, Victorian Washday and Victorian Games. Meet Queen Victoria and John Brown. Sing along at the Music Hall. Watch a Victorian Magic Show. Explore Victorian curios with Grymm's World of Wonders, Tooms Medical Marvels and the Grymm-Tooms Picture Company. Gerry Burrows demonstrates the historical making and the applications of rope. 131st Anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War with living history groups.

Events

Victorian Classroom

Victorian Classroom
Experience a Victorian school lesson. Will mum and dad have to wear the dunce's cap? Do they know their times tables? Who will get the cane?

Times: TBA

Location: Spinks Gallery

Victorian Washday

Victorian Washday
Grab your washboard, get your hands wet and learn to wash the Victorian way.

Times: TBA

Location: Cafe

Victorian Games

Victorian Games - High Days & Holidays
Try your hand at traditional Victorian toys. Learn how to survive without today's electronic games.

Times: TBA

Location: Cafe

Tricia Dibb Productions - LET'S ALL GO TO THE MUSIC HALL

Tricia Dibb

There will be two performances of 35 minutes at 1pm and 3pm.

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The Slap & Tickle Players invite you to join them in a melodious melange of cacophonous canticles - that's a good old sing song to you madam! Join us as we re-live the heady delights of a trip to the Victorian Music Hall, sing along and heckle to your heart's delight.

Brought to you by TD Productions 0208 458 9646.

Grymm Tooms

Grymm Tooms is a UK based historical re-enactment group consisting of Grymm's World of Wonders, Tooms Medical Marvels and the Grymm-Tooms Picture Company, covering the Victorian era from 1860 - 1900. The late 19th century was a time of incredible discovery, invention and change and it is our intention to illustrate a broad spectrum of experiences throughout that period. Many of our exhibits are unique and hand made by us. We are not a 'medicine show' or 'flim-flam' artists, we are a museum, and much of what we show is about man's place in nature, his effect on it, and interpretation of it throughout the Victorian era.

www.grymmtooms.co.uk

Mick Scott - Magician

Let magician Mick Scott take you back to the Victorian era when magic reigned supreme, when there was even a theatre devoted to grand illusions in the middle of the West End. Mick will perform magic tricks from both stage and street as well as some from the racecourse, promenade and festival garden. Wonder at disappearing knots, transforming cabinets and vanishing silks. Laughs a plenty, magical mayhem and wonderment guaranteed.

Gerry Burrows

I uniquely demonstrate the historical making and the applications of rope, from pre-Conquest times through to the Victorian era, when handmade rope-making was replaced by automated rope-making machines.

These demonstrations use different machines that are specific to the period that I am portraying and I try to link into the local history of the site.

Website: www.gerrytherope.co.uk/