From pants to privies, plagues to physicians, and poverty to poisonous wall paper, our exhibition showcases all the most horrible bits of Victorian tife.
Life on our road, Queen Street was very different two hundred years ago. Named as Dead Street and Back Street, it was part of the "squalid, quarrelsome underworld.. those dens of iniquity" where no constable had dared to show his face, as local historian Reginald Hine put it.
Explore the worst of Victorian Life at its finest!