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York Castle Museum

Visitors walk along model shops and carriages of a Victorian street scene in the York Castle Museum in York, England. Victorian Street in York Castle Museum - stock photo

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This excellent museum has displays of everyday life through the centuries, with reconstructed domestic interiors, a Victorian street and a prison cell where you can try out a condemned man's bed – and it could be that of highwayman Dick Turpin (imprisoned here before being hanged in 1739). There's a bewildering array of evocative objects from the past 400 years, gathered together by a certain Dr Kirk from the 1920s onwards for fear the items would become obsolete and disappear completely.

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