WEYMOUTH'S Nothe Fort will be hosting a Victorian Family Day in the summer.

'Ragged Victorians – The Great Unwashed,' an award winning living history group, will be visiting the fort, where they will be ‘surviving’ in the tunnels and cellars underground, and other areas of the fort, re-enacting the lives of lower classes of Victorian England.

The Nothe Fort Victorian Artillery will be in attendance, firing their Victorian Cannons, following their inspection by Queen Victoria and her escort.

The Rifle Brigade of Victorian re-enactors will also there and will offer an opportunity to fire a Victorian rifle.

The Victorian schoolroom and kitchen will be open – an opportunity find out about school life and the daily routines of a Victorian housewife.

Through photographs, paintings and artefacts you can find out what life was life in Weymouth and Portland during the Victorian era.

Whilst you relax in the Fort View café enjoy some Victorian entertainment in the company of performers from the era with singers, dancers and musicians.

Try your hand at some Victorian games and activities like Hoopla, coconut shy, roll a penny, and experience typical Victorian punishment in the stocks.

Local artists will be recreating traditional crafts around the parade ground.

It is on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 between 10.30am-5.30pm. Tickets available at nothefort.digitickets.co.uk