Woodhorn Museum
A FILM made by teenagers who took part in a Big Brother-style time travel experiment at a North East castle has gone on show to visitors at a heritage museum.
Three months ago, 35 young volunteers spent five days locked away at remote Featherstone Castle in Northumberland, experiencing what life was like for their counterparts back in the 1840s.
Dressed in period costume for the duration of their stay, they had to survive without modern-day “essentials” such as their mobile phones, computers, TVs and fast food, as they were propelled back to early Victorian times.
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The Heritage Big Brother project involved the group living, learning, entertaining themselves and even cooking according to the ways of the mid-19th Century, with heritage professionals and youth workers ensuring that the experience was as realistic and challenging as possible.
