The tour of the close lasted about an hour. I think the price is a little steep at £7.95 for a child and £12.45 for an adult but considering how much it must cost to keep the places maintained and safe for visitors then it becomes more reasonable.
The tour was informative and some of the things I learned were;
That people lived on beer for liquids in the Close as water was too contaminated.
The different symptoms of two different types of plague. The Bubonic Plague was the one with the poison filled boils under the arm pits and in the groin. The Pneumonic Plague was the one that was air born and went for the lungs and had symptoms similar to anthrax poisoning. Bubonic had a survival rate of 50/50 and Pneumonic was 100% fatal.
That the size of a room for two family's then is the same size of my living-room now.
I thought the guide was quite good - he had a dark sense of humour which is what I liked about him the most and he was quite funny at times. I would recommend the attraction for tourists but not for kids under 7 or 8 though the lowest age range is 5 and the close dose not seems to be acssesable to the disabled.
All in all I had a blast and would well recommend it.
Jodie.
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