17 Feb 2017 – 2 Jul 2017
Exhibition 'Exhibition - Life on Dead Street' in British Schools Museum
From Friday 17th February until Sunday 2nd July. With this new exhibition, experience what it was like to live in the poorest part of Hitchin during the 1800s. See, hear and smell the terrible conditions in which families lived on Dead Street, Hitchin. Learn from the pupils themselves how the Hitchin British School provided a vital opportunity to escape a lifetime of poverty.