STORY TOUR: Yards, Courts & Alleys - Conditions in Victorian Lancaster
7th October 2025
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Our unique Story Tours let you discover our local history in a brand new way, through the personal stories of the people who lived it.
Yards, Courts and Alleys - Conditions in Victorian Lancaster
Starting from Lancaster City Museum, this 1.5 hour walking tour will take you around the city centre.
Using Richard Owen's 'Health of Towns' report as a guide, local historian Naomi Parsons will lead you 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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Show Times
- Tour begins at 11am and lasts approximately 1.5 hours.
Cost
- Adult - £10
- Child (under 18) - £2.50
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Address
- Lancaster City Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
