FIVE hundred years of cottage life has been celebrated at the Ryedale Folk Museum.
Visitors to the museum, at Hutton-le-Hole, near Pickering, were treated to the sights, sounds and smells of cottage life in a display called Cottage Pie.
Museum curator Martin Watts said: "There was a chance to see what went on in cottages in the past.
"Visitors had the chance to meet our gardener working in our traditional vegetable garden, which is in full production.
"The blacksmith had several jobs on, including making foot patterns, which were worn instead of wellies to keep you out of the mud."
Visitors also had an opportunity to relive the 1953 Coronation in the village shop.
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