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Hull History Centre Arcade

3-26 March 2026 (Tuesday-Thursday 9.30-4.30 + Saturday 21 March, 9.30-12.30)

Free, all welcome

In 1825, Samuel Wilderspin undertook his first road-trip promoting infant schools in villages, towns and cities across the nation. The 800-mile roundtrip set the pattern of things to come over the next 20 years. Based on his own accounts, this small exhibition curated by volunteers at the Wilderspin & National School Museum, Barton, highlights the challenges of lone travel across the British Isles just as the railway age was dawning. It's a unique story of ambition and endurance; A 'journey' which began in Spitalfields, London, in 1825, and ended at Barton upon Humber and Hull twenty years later.