There’s just under a week to go before Lancaster’s Judges Lodgings Museum, Lancaster’s oldest town house, re-opens for the season on Thursday 24th March.
Plenty of events are being lined up to mark the re-opening, including the Friends pop-up Victorian Tea Room (on the first Saturday of every month), the popular Friday lunchtime lectures (on the last Friday of the month) and the family Easter Egg Hunt.
Nestled below Lancaster Castle, the Judges’ Lodgings dates back nearly 400 years on a site that has been at the centre of Lancaster’s history for nearly 2000 years. The current house was built around 1625 by Thomas Covell, Keeper of the Castle and famous for locking up the Pendle Witches during the infamous Lancashire Witch Trials.
From 1826 the house became a lodgings for the travelling ‘Red Judges’ of the Assizes Courts. Dressed in their scarlet robes, the Judges decided the fate of murderers, forgers and highwaymen at Lancaster Castle.
Today the house is home to beautiful Georgian furniture by Gillows of Lancaster, elegant period rooms and the popular Museum of Childhood.
• Don’t miss out, plan your visit now by visiting this page on the Lancashire County Council website