History of York

York Castle Museum www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk

A partner since: 10/12/2007

York Castle Museum is the home of the famous Victorian Street.

• York Castle Museum has 13 items on display at the History of York

• Plum Cakes for Christmas
  For the well-off Victorian, Christmas food could include goose or turkey, Yorkshire pie with aspic jelly, tri...

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• Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
  This tin of Rowntree's cocoa has been almost all the way to the south pole and back. It is one of the unused...

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• The Victorian Prison Building
  One of the largest and most remarkable buildings in York's history existed for almost exactly a century befor...

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• Kirkgate: Victorian Street
  Whilst not in its original location almost everything in Kirkgate, from the cobbles to the shop-fronts, is ge...

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• York Castle Museum
  York Castle Museum is a landmark in the history of museums world-wide.  It was founded in 1938 by Dr Joh...

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• Sixties York
  For young people in York the Sixties truly began in 1963.  That was the year The Beatles played The Rial...

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• Joseph Terry & Sons: Chocolate Manufacturers
  Joseph Terry, who was born in Pocklington, came to York to serve as an apprentice apothecary in Stonegate, be...

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• Joseph Aloysius Hansom
  Born in Micklegate, Joseph Hansom was the son of a builder and became a freeman of York.  After showing...

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• Dick Turpin
  He wasn’t from York, he wasn’t the dashing outlaw of legend and he didn’t own a horse calle...

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• The Battle of Marston Moor
  In 1644, during the English Civil War, York was besieged.  Royalist troops in the city were surrounded b...

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• The Female Prison
  The Female Prison, as it is now known, was built in 1780 to ease some of the overcrowding problems in the De...

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• The Debtors' Prison
  York Castle has long been a place of the Crown's justice and punishment.  At the turn of the 1...

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• Henry Percy and The Percy Panels
  These carved oak panels come from The Percy Inn, a house in Walmgate once owned by the Percy family. The las...

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