Pickford's House was built by Joseph Pickford, an architect, as his family home and workplace in 1796-70. He lived there with his wife, Mary, and two young sons, Thomas and Joseph, together with their servants and their dog. Behind the house stood Pickford's builder's yard and stonemason's workshops.
You can see the ground floor dining room, drawing room and morning room as they might have been in Joseph Pickford's time. A Georgian bedroom and dressing room have been recreated on the first floor, while on the top floor there is a servant's bedroom complete with straw mattress.
The kitchen and laundry have been reconstructed, together with a cellar, pantry and housekeeper's cupboard, so that visitors can get an idea of what life was like for the servants working below stairs in Georgian times. One of the cellars is equipped as an air-raid shelter of the 1940s.
The upper floors feature displays of toys and toy theatres, and several rooms showing some of the Museum's excellent collection of historic costumes and textiles.
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