11:00am Saturday 19th December 2009
VISITORS to York Dungeon this Christmas will be transported back more than 360 years – to a time when the celebration was outlawed.
The attraction in Clifford Street is winding the clock back to 1647, when puritan Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas.
Visitors will be greeted with burned Christmas trees, smashed decorations, robins on spears and severed heads choking on mince pies. They will also venture through a Room 101 of festive things that have gone wrong, and be tried by Judge Mental.
A spokesman said: “Woe betide those with a Merry Christmas on their lips or mince pies on their breath. These have been condemned by Oliver Cromwell as illegal demons of Catholic decadence, and his henchman does not take kindly to law breakers.”
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