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The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley hosted the first location which transported the celebrities into the 19th century, or as they came to know it: The Dust Yard.

While here, our time-travellers experienced Victorian life at its most filthy. Zoe and Tyger were tasked with cleaning the (horse) mucky streets, while Ann and Miquita struggled with carpet beating.

Black Country Living Museum near Dudley is a 26 acre open-air museum featuring over 50 authentic period buildings, most of which have been moved brick-by-brick from within the region. Domestic life is conveyed via - amongst others - the exteriors and interiors of the Edwardian school, Victorian shops and a 1930s and 1940s street, whilst industrial themes are represented by a colliery, underground mine and metalwork forges.

The celebrities spent their next 24 Hours in the Past, working at a busy coaching inn. As Fi Glover explains, it's the Victorian equivalent of a motorway service station.

The setting for this was the New Inn, an Inn built by Lord Cobham in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary 250 acre landscape garden at his home Stowe.

Colin and Alistair found themselves stabling weary horses in the courtyard, while Zoe and Ann Widdecombe were responsible for tending to the hungry passengers.

Today, Stowe is looked after by the National Trust. The New Inn was restored in 2012 and can be visited along with the landscape gardens every day. And while you will still find fires burning in the grates and beer in the tap room and sheets hanging in the laundry, the rats and the filth have been left in the past!

Pottery was big business in Victorian Britain. Staffordshire alone had over 2,000 kilns powered by the local coal mines. It is here, at the Gladstone pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, that the six celebrities find themselves for their third day of living - but mostly working - in the past.

The pottery required strong and skilled workers; and the jobs available ranged from jollyers to one-legged dancers! Ann was considered too old to partake in manufacturing, but she did get to paint some plates...

Unfortunately, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and some inadequate 'balling up' by Miquita affected Colin's wages.

Gladstone is the only complete Victorian pottery factory from the days when coal burning ovens made the world’s finest bone china. Traditional skills, original workshops, the cobbled yard and huge bottle ovens transport visitors back in time.

The pottery also boasts a Tile Gallery, Doctor’s House and Flushed with Pride – the only permanent exhibition all about the humble loo! Visitors can have a go at throwing a pot, making a bone china flower and decorating pottery themselves.

For the team's final 24 Hours in the Past, they experienced one of the hardest environments for the Victorian poor - The Workhouse.

Cut off from the outside community, managed by a paid master and a matron, the 158 inmates who once lived at The Workhouse, Southwell lived in a restricted and regimented environment.

Our celebrities were segregated, with the men earning their keep by breaking stones, bone crushing and mattress making and the women engaged in cooking, washing, and picking oakum (the process of unravelling ropes and cord into fibre).

Today, The Workhouse is cared for by the National Trust. Open to the public, it has been restored to as state as close to its mid-nineteenth century heyday as possible, with austere dormitories, rooms and yards.