A new exhibition at Sewerby Hall; In Service opens 11th January. It explores the bleak choices available to the poor: life on the street or a life in service during the Victorian/Edwardian era. Largely invisible to their elite employers, domestic servants and farm hands were the beating heart of country house estates like Sewerby. In Service takes an in depth view with new research into the lives of key players in the Lloyd Greame household.

It was no secret that in the Victorian-Edwardian eras the gulf between the landed gentry and the urban poor was vast. One of the only things between poverty and life on the street for the working class was life in service. Nor was it a secret that a life in service was largely invisible to the people they served. This exhibition explores being a servant in the early 20th century in a world which was about to be turned on its head: the last gasp of the golden age.

Come and have some family fun with our Servants' Trail. Search each room on the ground floor to uncover hidden objects belonging to the servants - can you find them all?

The house is open only at weekends until February half-term, when for that week it's open daily. Standard admission charges apply.