Abbey House Museum (1966)

Kirkstall, Leeds, Yorkshire. A museum with a difference - a living exhibit of a Victorian street. Abbey House Museum. M/S of a quaint row of old shops, a woman in period costume accompanied by a man in military uniform look in a shop windows. Panning shot around an old fashioned pharmacy, camera stops on a man, tilt down to show him using an antiquated pill making machine. M/S of a man coming out of a house accompanied by his wife, both wear period costume. The man goes to his vintage bike leaning against a wall, the couple walk down the street. L/S of the street, people mill about in period dress, we see from the glass ceiling it is fact a living exhibition in a modern museum, Kirkstall Abbey House Museum. M/S of a man in a top hat talking to an elderly woman, tilt down old fashioned tricycle he is sitting on. M/S of a man using an barrel organ. C/U of the soldier and his young lady by a shop window, C/U of products on display in the window. Various shots of Victorian signs. An elderly woman goes into th
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