Locked up in the old court house (The Galleries of Justice (Nottingham))

Member Name: tisha66

Product:	The Galleries of Justice (Nottingham)
Date:	06/07/09 (96 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very good because its interactive and fun

Disadvantages: doesnt seem to last very long

The Galleries of Justice is now a museum that is situated in Nottinghams Lace market and you can't miss it even if your just driving through.

I (22) went earlier this with my partner(24), younger brother (17) and sister (20) and I really thought that it's well worth going to for a visit so if you're ever in the area pop in for a look round.

At first site you can definately tell that it's an old court because its so well maintained from the outside. We walked up the stone steps through the big wooden doors to a large foyer where you purchase tickets.

We brought tickets and for all for of us it cost around £38. The Galleries of Justice also work alongside the Caves of Nottingham so when you buy your tickets for the Galleries of Justice you get the option to also buy tickets for the other attraction and overall get 20% how off.

Our receipts for the Galleries of Justice where like tickets that had numbers on the back, we all had individual number.

Tours are every half an hour so if you come half way through the day the chances are you can still buy tickets and go on a tour with in the next half an hour.

There is a small cafe at the back so if you are having to wait a while for your tour you can sit and have a drink.

Its in the cafe where the tour starts and you are rounded up by a member of staff who is very appropriatley dressed in a costume. The person that collected us for the guided tour was dressed as judge with old style clothing just to give that historic feel. When he was talking to us he was also talking as people would have done when the court was actually.

The guide led us into the old court room and singled a couple of us out. he then questionned us, as he was the judge. It felt quite intimidating because we were literally in the old court room and although I knew I wasn't in reality really on trial but it felt really authentic.

Later we got sentenced and got sent to prision little did I know the numbers on the back of tickets, which we were given earlier, were actually our prison numbers. On the way down to the prison there were lots of cells and photos and information about some of the prisoners that had once been there, our ticket numbers matched up to some of the prisoners that were on the photos.

We were guided around the cells and shown what prisoners used to do when they were being punished. The guides also informed us hows prisoners would escape and go to he slumbs because officers were to frightened to look in the slumbs.

Overall the experience was really good and educational. I am not particularly interested in history but this really grabbed my attention and kept my interest all the way through. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the history and would definatly recommend it.

Summary: very good thing to do and really enjoyable