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Pupils Being Put In Jail - All Wearing Victorian Clothing

1979 , Great Yarmouth (Norfolk)

Cat no. 110438

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Christine Webber reports on an unusual charity fundraiser where schoolboys spend the night in a Victorian jail

A jailer records the entrance of a young man who has committed assault for six months' hard labour. This is part of a sponsored lock-in at Tolhouse Gaol in Great Yarmouth. Christine Webber reports from the jail, where 8 schoolchildren from Great Yarmouth are staying there overnight dressed in Victorian clothes, with only 19th century rations to eat. She interviews their 'jailer', Museum Teacher Nick Winterbotham. He decided to combine the educational scheme with fundraising for the Oxfam Cambodia Appeal. Asking one of the inmates, David, what he will be eating, he tells her they will be having a thin soup and gruel. She interviews several of the other boys. They are hoping to raise £200 for the charity. Nick Witherbotham jokingly locks Christine Webber in one of the cells, as she ends the report.

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Tolhouse Gaol

Keywords

Charity; Fundraising; Children; School; Museum

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Pupils Being Put In Jail - All Wearing Victorian Clothing

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