Meet Alice and the other fantastic characters from Alice in Wonderland this summer.
Come along to the Ripon Workhouse Museum on Tuesday 30th July and 20th August.
The characters can’t wait to entertain you and will be at the Woodshed from 10am to 2pm on both days.
It’s FREE to come and meet the characters and no booking is needed.
Did you know that one of Britain’s most popular novels, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, may have been inspired right here in the city of Ripon.
Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, lived in Ripon as a young man. His father was canon of Ripon Cathedral from 1852 until 1858 and Carroll spent a lot of his time in the cathedral. Here, he would have seen the carving of images that are particularly reminiscent of Wonderland. A carved griffin chasing a rabbit down a hole on one misericord may have inspired Alice’s fall down the rabbit hole. A small misshapen character on another misericord looks rather like Alice after she followed the ‘drink me’ instruction and shrank. It has also been suggested that the rabbit hole may have been inspired by the cathedral’s crypt tunnel.
For more details of the event see Visit Ripon
