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Folk Museum |
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Folk Museum |
Housed mainly in timber-framed buildings, including a jewel of a sixteenth-century house where Archbishop Hooper is said to have lodged before he was burned at the stake round the corner, the museum displays the tools, household objects and treasures of the city's inhabitants since then.
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It owes its existence to the vision and systematic hoarding of Dr Wilde, who in the 1920s combined his medical practice in the area with a desire to preserve the signs of a fast-disappearing way of life. When the City Council set up the Folk Museum in 1935 it was the first of its kind in the country. |
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Thousands of Gloucester people have fond if slightly scary memories of its wonderfully realistic Victorian Schoolroom sessions. There's a dairy with a full-size stuffed Old Gloucester cow, and often live animals in the yard beyond the cottage garden out the back. |
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