STORY TOUR: Yards, Courts & Alleys - Living Conditions in Victorian Lancaster

Schedule

Tue Sep 08 2026 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Starting from Lancaster City Museum | Lancaster, EN

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This 1.5 hour walking tour around Lancaster city centre is led by expert guide and local historian Naomi Parsons:
Yards, Courts & Alleys - Living Conditions in Victorian Lancaster
Using Richard Owen's Health of Town's Report as our guide, we head down Lancaster's lesser used thoroughfares to discover the dreadful conditions that families lived in and the changes that helped to overcome the epidemics that plagued them.
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Starting from Lancaster City Museum, Lancaster Music Library, Market Street, Lancaster, LA1 1JG, United Kingdom

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