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Tales from The Workhouse

Mon 24 Aug · 11:30

The Workhouse and Infirmary

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About This Event

Write on a slate, help with the washing, learn to pick oakum. Meet our costumed characters and come and find out what life was like within The Workhouse. Listen to their stories as you encounter the inmates doing their daily jobs. Normal admission charges apply. Last entry one hour before closing. There will be 3 storytelling sessions at 11:30am, 12:30pm and 2pm. Each session will last 30 minutes. Booking not required.

Meet our costumed characters and hear their stories as they go about their daily tasks in the workhouse. Try your hand at slate-writing, help with the washing or learn to pick oakum, activities that reflect the routines inmates followed. Listen to first-hand accounts of life within the institution during the storytelling sessions.

Three storytelling sessions take place at 11:30am, 12:30pm and 2pm, each lasting 30 minutes. Normal admission charges apply and last entry is one hour before closing.

Details written from the information supplied by the event organiser.

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Frequently asked questions

Tales from The Workhouse takes place on Monday, 24 August 2026 at 11:30. The event runs until Monday, 31 August 2026.

Tales from The Workhouse is held at The Workhouse and Infirmary in Nottingham (Upton Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire).

Tickets for Tales from The Workhouse can be booked via nationaltrust.org.uk using the "Check Tickets & Live Prices" button on this page, which opens the official booking site in a new tab.

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