Body snatchers row

A terraced row of Georgian townhouses in Great Yarmouth holds one of Norfolk's most macabre stories. Body Snatchers Row documents the grim trade that flourished here in the early 1800s - when local men would exhume fresh corpses from churchyards to sell to medical schools desperate for cadavers to dissect.

The museum occupies actual period properties where resurrectionists once lived and worked, their gruesome business hidden behind respectable facades. You'll see artefacts, documents, and reconstructed scenes that lay bare how this illegal trade operated - the tools they used, the routes they took, the bribes they paid. It's genuinely unsettling stuff, which is rather the point.

History buffs will find it compelling, and anyone with a taste for the darker corners of social history won't regret the detour from Great Yarmouth town centre. It's not for the squeamish, and younger kids might find it disturbing rather than educational, though teenagers with a ghoulish streak will be gripped.

The row sits within walking distance of the seafront, making it easy to combine with a day at one of the nearby holiday parks - Haven Seashore is barely a mile away, or push to Caister-on-Sea. Call ahead to confirm opening hours and admission charges, as information online is thin. Allow ninety minutes to do it justice, longer if you're the type to read every placard. A proper slice of Norfolk's underbelly.