Ripon Museum Trust
The Workhouse Museum of Poor Law, Allhallowgate, Ripon HG4 1LE
Phone: +44 (0)1765 690799
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Along the law and order trail in Ripon, discover 1) The Workhouse – “vacancies for vagrants: bath, bed and board; payment – chopping wood and breaking stones”. 2) The Courthouse (a.k.a. Ashfordly Magistrates Court in YTV’s ‘Heartbeat’) – licensed to sell ale, free transportation to the colonies or a term in the debtors gaol? 3) The Prison and Police Museum – solitary confinement, hard labour, handcuffs, pillory and whipping post.
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