Exhibition opening day | Wyldgate Lane – A Walk Through Victorian Worcester

Saturday 1 February 2025, 10am – 4pm | The Commandery

Celebrate the first day of brand-new exhibition Wyldgate Lane – A Walk Through Victorian Worcester!

Discover Victorian life through a fictional backstreet based on Worcester’s very own history. You can get dressed up in Victorian costume, sweep a chimney, and pull a pint in the Victorian ‘Angel’ pub.

On the opening day, meet Victorian surgeon Kevin Goodman and hear all about the illnesses, diseases, cures and remedies from the time. He will demonstrate how people made medicines, along with a display of medical and surgical equipment, quack cures and dental instruments.

Try your hand at rag rugging to add your touch to The Commandery’s opening day rug!

The Commandery is open from 10am – 4pm. Entry to the exhibition is included in general admission. Plan your visit.

About the exhibition

Step back in time to 1890 to explore the darker corners of Victorian life from birth and childhood to the funeral parlour and all the trials and tribulations faced in between.

On display are original items from the museum collections such as police uniform including truncheons and handcuffs, chemist’s medicine bottles, a funeral bier (the funeral directors carriage pulled along by horses, which held the coffin) and original pub beer pumps.

Wyldgate Lane is imaginary but draws on the accounts and experiences of those living in the streets, lanes and back alleys immediately around The Commandery.

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