VICTORIAN-themed fun and games are continuing to take place at Ripon Museums throughout the summer holidays.

Youngsters are getting the chance to experience the type of childhood activities once enjoyed by their ancestors, with not a mobile phone in sight.

So far, visitors to the Workhouse Museum have taken part in dowsing and digging for artefacts in a ‘Dig It’ week, made felt toys and Wilfra Tarts in the Yorkshire Make and Bake, learned how to ‘ask for more’ and to ‘pick a pocket or two’ during the Oliver Twist week and been put in the dock in Police and Poachers week.

This week visitors are experiencing life as a street child and the museum is now preparing for its last week of activities, with ‘Workhouse Boys and Girls’ launching on Monday.

This will involve visitors being ‘put to work’ at the workhouse by baking, planting in the kitchen garden, rag-rugging and doing the laundry.

The Ripon attraction is the most complete example of a workhouse in the country and it was announced this week that it has made the shortlist of North Yorkshire County Council’s Community Awards scheme.

It has also been shortlisted for the Small Visitor Attraction category in the White Rose Awards 2018, the largest awards in the UK’s biggest hospitality and tourism industry which celebrates the best Yorkshire has to offer visitors.