DeepHour wrote:
We had a school trip to York in the early 1970s, and I was fascinated by a recreated 19th Century street called 'Kirkgate' in the Castle Museum. I visited the museum a few years ago, and it no longer seemed to be there.
I've noticed that virtually every town or city in Yorkshire seems to have a 'Kirkgate', by the way.
Kirkgate's still there. Castle Museum is the best museum in York IMO.
Go in the main entrance not the dungeon entrance then go around the exhibits and you'll eventually come to it, if you're ever there again.
Actually even through the dungeon entrance you'll get there it will just take ages.
Kirkgate was named after Dr Kirk. The guy in the 1930s who went around gathering things from the 19th century to make the street for the museum

Discovered another recreated Victorian Street today at Salford Museum and Art Gallery in Greater Manchester. It's the 'Lark Hill Place' exhibit, a much darker (literally) environment than the York Kirkgate, but well worth half an hour or so of your time. I was quite amused by the 'Bowel Mixture' drink in the sweet shop, and the 'Unseasoned Bovril' for 'delicate persons'. They also had a box of 100 year old 'Victory Babies' (the original version of Jelly Babies), which didn't look very appetizing at all after all that time....