Nearly 200 years after it was published, children are still beguiled by Charles Dickens’ tale of Oliver Twist, the young orphan thrown out of the spartan workhouse for daring to ask for more gruel.
And this summer children can still follow in the footsteps of those unfortunate Victorians who were left with nowhere else to turn - by visiting some of Yorkshire’s most intriguing museums. Ripon Museums, which incorporates the city’s former workhouse, courthouse and police and prison cells, are running a summer trail connecting nature with history.
Elijah and John Sinkler were arrested in 1831 for the assault of a gamekeeper, but during the affray John stabbed the Sergeant at Mace for Ripon in the neck. The brothers went on the run but were caught up a decade later, where John was found guilty of attempted murder and transported to Tasmania. But his return to Yorkshire ten years later did not mean the turning of a new leaf, and he was was tried again for trespassing in pursuit of game, ending with his imprisonment with hard labour.
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