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Date: Fri, 11 July 2025 - Sun, 14 December 2025

Time: 10-4:30 Tuesday - Sunday

Cost: Free, normal admission applies

Type: Exhibition

Costume Exhibition featuring clothes and items from how we used to live, 1900-1950 this exhibition showcases how times have changed. A great trip down memory lane for some and an education in how the washing used to be done for those to young to remember…

With a slideshow of some of the clothes Whitby people used to wear featuring some excellent examples of people turned out in their ‘Sunday Best’.

Don’t miss our Whitby Weddings touch screen also in the costume gallery. Take a look through wedding fashion through the years with a selection of wedding images taken by local photographer John Tindale. Perhaps you might find the wedding of a relative, or your own wedding snaps!

Blue child's dress on a headless mannequin with teddy bears at the feet. A black pinafore dress is on the mannequin at the back .small model of the interior of an old haberdashery shop.