Experiencing the sights and sounds of Ripon
All three museums, the workhouse, prison and police museum, Ripon Library, Ripon Town Hall, the Market Square and Ripon Cathedral were opened up today (Saturday) and staging free, fun family activities to show-case the history, heritage and also what the North Yorkshire cathedral city has to offer.
The event is organised by Harrogate Borough Council and Ripon Museums as part of the Ripon My Neighbourhood partnership.
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Hide AdAfter a display of bell-ringing the event was officially opened this morning by the Mayor of Ripon, Cllr Pauline McHardy and assisted by the Ripon Hornblower and Ripon Trinity Singers.
Activities throughout the day included a pop-up café and the ‘Homeless not Faceless’ exhibition and the Brickworks’ Lego workshop at Ripon Cathedral as well as a Tower tour, children’s storytime at Ripon Library, fingerprints being taken at the police station, a silverware talk in the Mayor's Parlour at the Town Hall, Morris dancing, a Victorian school session in the Workhouse Museum and a ghost walk around the historic city streets which started from the Market Square.