Nottingham's Brewhouse Yard is housed in five 17th-century cottages. This fascinating museum traces the social history of the city over the past 300 years through reconstructed rooms, shop settings and gallery displays.
Visitors can peep inside a Victorian child's bedroom, root through the cupboards in the kitchen and pump water. Numerous shops include an Edwardian grocery shop, a Victorian chemist and a row of 1920s shops including a barbershop, pawn shop, ironmongers and cobblers.
One gallery traces the history of the area through sight, sound and touch. Another highlight are the rock-cut caves at the end of the buildings, used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War.