Staff at Hitchin Museum are having a break from cleaning the hundreds of bottles from the Victorian Pharmacy and have moved on to some more unusual and larger objects.

Here, Gill dusts and hoovers a model of a church pulpit, made locally from wood and leather.

Gill cleans a model pulpit

Amanda carefully works on a wooden stereoscope from the collection. These were popular in Victorian times to view 3D photos.

Amanda cleaning a stereoscope