IN PICTURES: take a look at the gems of Beck Isle museum

The wonders of a bygone rural age are brought to life at Beck Isle Museum in Pickering.

Its exhibitions are indoors and outdoors and include stables, a chemist shop, a cobblers and a Victorian drawing room. New for this year is a display of Victorian dresses donated by local people.

Beck Isle Museum is in Pickering. It is open daily from 10am to 5pmplaceholder image
Beck Isle Museum is in Pickering. It is open daily from 10am to 5pm
Volunteer and costume specialist Michele Conway with the Victorian  costume exhibitsplaceholder image
Volunteer and costume specialist Michele Conway with the Victorian costume exhibits
One of the dresses in the new Victorian dress exhibitionplaceholder image
One of the dresses in the new Victorian dress exhibition
A model of a carousel rideplaceholder image
A model of a carousel ride
Volunteer Mike Pitt views the Columbia printing pressplaceholder image
Volunteer Mike Pitt views the Columbia printing press
Volunteer Liz Whitehouse in the Victorian parlourplaceholder image
Volunteer Liz Whitehouse in the Victorian parlour
The mantlepiece in the Victorian parlourplaceholder image
The mantlepiece in the Victorian parlour
The Columbian printing pressplaceholder image
The Columbian printing press
On the shelves at the chemist'splaceholder image
On the shelves at the chemist's
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