Museum of Georgian Life and Costume
Pickford's House
Most Georgian houses open to the public are stately homes with grand reception rooms, sweeping staircases with priceless furniture and paintings to match. Pickford's House Museum shows the accommodation and furnishings of a late Georgian professional man. The visitor can see the ground floor rooms furnished as they might have been in Pickford's time together with displays of eighteenth and nineteenth century costume. The kitchen and back kitchen have been reconstructed to about l830, together with a cellar, pantry and a housekeeper's cupboard, so that visitors can get an idea of what life was like for the servants working below stairs.
At the back of the house a formal Georgian garden has been recreated and at the side of the house visitors can wander around the newly established scented garden.
Events involving cooking and laundry demonstrations take place regularly and visitors should not be surprised to encounter a class of children all learning to be Georgian servants! Displays include changing exhibitions of items from the costume and textile collection. Other rooms deal with the history of the Friar Gate area and the importance of Joseph Pickford as a Midlands architect. Part of the Frank Bradley collection of toy theatres is also on display.
(Parties by arrangement only)
FREE
Saturday