SOLD OUT – Prison Life Tour – Sat 30 Sep 2017
This event has now sold out.
The site where the York Castle Museum now stands has been a place of justice and imprisonment for around 1,000 years. Visit the Debtors’ prison building, and the Prison Experience displays and find out about the poor sanitary arrangements, the punishments and the exercise which felons faced every day.
The tour is followed by the opportunity to handle original prison objects from the past two centuries.
Free with admission.
This event repeats at 10am on 30 September – click here to book through Eventbrite.
This event is part of The Big City Read 2017.
Event details
Date
Saturday 30 September 2017, 11:00 am - 11:45 am
Venue
York Castle Museum,
Eye of York
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 9RY