Thackray Medical Museum - Charity Ghost Hunt to raise funds for the museum
Sat, 14 May
|Harehills
The former Leeds Workhouse, and hospital. Previous Veritas visits have resulted in sightings of apparitions in the old street area of the museum.
Time & Location
14 May 2022, 20:00 – 15 May 2022, 01:00
Harehills, 141 Beckett St, Harehills, Leeds LS9 7LN, UK
About The Event
Tickets for this event are £45pp - with just a £25pp deposit required to save your place, no further payment is necessary until March 2022.
History of Leeds Old Workhouse
The building is a Grade II listed building formerly known as the Leeds Union Workhouse and was built in 1858 to accommodate 784 paupers. By the end of the 19th century, the buildings had become largely used for medical care of the poor, rather than workhouse and training. During the First World War it was called the East Leeds War Hospital, caring for armed services personnel.
By day Thackray Medical Museum is a reincarnation of life in Victorian Leeds where visitors walk through a reproduction of slum streets complete with authentic sights, sounds and smells and are invited to follow the lives, ailments and treatments of eight Victorian characters, making the choices that determine their survival amongst the rats, fleas…