GAZETTE & HERALD: Visitors to Lacock Abbey this weekend will find themselves transported back in time to the Victorian era.
The National Trust is holding a family learning weekend on a Victorian theme, offering an insight into two very different young lives lived out at Lacock Abbey and the Lacock Workhouse in the 19th century.
The hardship of the life of Alfred, a young boy growing up in the workhouse in the 1830s, will be contrasted with the grandeur of the life of William Henry Mount Edgecombe, a relative of the Fox Talbot family.
The diaries of William's Victorian French governess, Amelia, tell the story of young William and their travels in Europe.
Set in the cloisters of Lacock Abbey, the family learning weekend will feature prints, a camera obscura and early experiments in photography, as well as an appearance by Fox Talbot himself, to bring the lives of these two young boys to life.
Visitors will also be able to try early photography experiments, and the day includes a garden quiz for the younger visitor, which leads them on a trail through the beautiful Victorian parkland Fox Talbot created.
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