PICTURES SPECIAL: A look inside the £2.8m restoration of Ripon Workhouse Museum
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PICTURES SPECIAL: A look inside the £2.8m restoration of Ripon Workhouse Museum
• Visitors to Ripon are in for a real treat after the completion of a £2.8m facelift of one of Britain’s best surviving Victorian workhouses.
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