1. LIFE IN THE 1910S BY TEIGAN SCOTT

2. INTRODUCTION This presentation shows what I found out about the 1910s. I hope you enjoy It includes information about hobbies and sport, housing, cars, music and many more.

3. HOUSING POSH PEOPLE Kitchens tended to have modern appliances, including toasters, waffle irons, refrigerators, etc. They also had hot water and cold water taps and lots of storage space. Bedrooms and Bathrooms weren't used the same as they are now - in the 1910s, lots of families loved the idea of toasters wherever they could be installed - So, toasters were attempted to be put into every room, including bedrooms and bathrooms. Bathrooms had flushable toilets and built in tubs. Surprisingly, women didn't cook - or wash dishes, or drove her car, or even did her hair! She had a servant to do all of her duties. An entertainment room would have a piano, phonograph, sometimes even an organ! The entertainment room is usually where big feats would take place. Electric lights were a great invention to the people of the 1910s. So great that almost all of the upper class people had working electric lights in their homes. As you can see, the 1910s were very influential in the way of housing. Some people still like the wooden look of the 1910s interiors, and style their own houses after these beautiful rustic homes.

4. HOUSING These are examples of rich peoples houses in the 1910s. They look really cool.

5. HOUSING POOR PEOPLE In 1914 a typical working class family lived in a 'two up, two down'. They had two rooms downstairs and two upstairs. The downstairs front room was kept for best. The family kept their best furniture and ornaments in this room. They spent most of the their time in the downstairs back room, which served as a kitchen and living room. In 1914 working class homes were lit by gas. Most working class homes had outside lavatories. From about 1900 some houses were built for skilled workers with bathrooms and inside toilets. However they were still rare in 1914. Moreover very poor families sometimes lived in just one room.

6. HOUSING

7. JOBS During the war many men had to go and fight on the front line- in the trenches or at sea, but some essential people such as doctors, butchers and bakers stayed home. Everyone was involved in the war effort The role of Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cVSjzuvThE

8. FOOD Excerpt from a description by a lady who was brought up in the 1910s “My mother was born in 1910 and her mother had a window-sill bakery (she baked bread, rolls, and pies, she put them on the window sill, and neighbors would come take what they want and leave money in a bowl set there). Meals were meat and potatoes mostly. Cooked veggies, soups, baked products too. Refrigeration was a large upright icebox... like a cooler. Ice was delivered daily by the ice-man, and the melt-water tray at the bottom had to be emptied at least once a day (twice if you wanted it to be easier to do). And there were no freezers for frozen food, and if you wanted ice you just chipped it off the block in the top of the ice box. Because coolers don't keep food all that well, meat was usually purchased daily and the milk man brought milk every morning. These milk wagons were horse-drawn and the horse automatically stopped at every house and didn't need to be tied up while the milk was delivered and the empty milk bottles taken away. People had stronger "sweet tooths" back then, and recipes my mother cherished from her childhood were too cloyingly sweet and rich for my tastes, and I was a child in the 1950's. Now those desserts would be just too too much. Everyone who could afford bleached, white flour preferred it to the cheaper coarser whole wheat flour. All sorts of vendors went up and down the suburban streets, selling produce, lemonade, freshly-popped popcorn. Photographers went from door to door to take pictures, some of them had ponies and would take a picture of your child sitting on a pony (understand that horses were expensive to keep and most people took the streetcar.. ponies were for rich kids only, and so they were a real status thing).”

9. FOOD We made some WW1 style recipes. They were: ……………

10. TRENCH CAKE All parcels sent from home to the trenches in France must have been much appreciated for the contact they gave soldiers with loved ones, but you can imagine how much a young man must also have enjoyed a chance to vary his rations with something as modest, but otherwise unobtainable, as a slice of home- made cake. Food served to soldiers in the trenches generally consisted of bread (stale by the time it reached the front line), hard biscuits (inedible unless soaked), bully beef (similar to corned beef), tinned butter, tinned jam, tinned pork with beans (beans with a piece of pork fat on top). Soldiers may have been able to buy food locally to add to these rations. Those who could afford it had hampers sent out to them from Harrods or Fortnum & Mason(!), but such luxury was beyond the means of the average Tommy. The army recognised the importance of postal deliveries to troop morale and packages sent from home could expect to reach soldiers in France or Belgium within two or three days, and a week to ten days reach the front line. A fruit cake, well wrapped, would travel well and stay fresh. Such was the comradeship between the men, that the contents of any parcel would be shared out. Cigarettes were handed round, new socks passed onto a man whose own had fallen to pieces, and a cake like this would have been divided up and shared.

11. CARS The cars in the 1910s were a lot different to the cars we have now click on the video link and you will find out more https://youtu.be/Oty4jchgvwM

12. CARS

13. music The music in the 1910s are also old fashioned to us now. It was quite jazzy and orchestral. There were a lot of famous musicians in those days like for example: Edward Elgar and Johannes Brahms here are some photos of them: https://youtu.be/mYOJdd3gPe4

14. music Music could be played on a gramophone, if you were wealthy.

15. HOBBIES & SPORT Some of the hobbies and sport in the 1910s are very similar to what we like now a days like for example, scooters and board games for children as well as bouncy ball games, dressing up and dominoes. There weren’t computers or games consoles so a lot of the time children played outside.

16. HOBBIES AND SPORT Some of the popular sports back then were golf, cricket, basketball and tennis which are still widely played today Known as the ballroom decade, the 1910's involved a lot of dancing. Such dancing included the Fox Trot and the Tango, and most popular restaurants had dance floors at which people could perform these dances. After Arthur Wynne invented the crossword in 1913, people began enjoying these enigmas as another pastime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkkOqXUaZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYBFW E1UKWo

17. WW1 AND THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND In the 1910s there was a lot of tension between countries and it came to a head with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand and Germany invading Belgium. World War One began in 1914 and lasted for 4 years. Many lives were lost for the cause. It is 100 years since the battle of Jutland, so I have learnt a bit about it. The battle of jutland was the largest most pivotal battle of world war one. The British commanders were Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe and vice admiralSir David Richard Beatty. Although Germany caused the most damage it didn’t hurt the Grand Fleet enough. Germany reverted to using submarines to destroy supplies, but Britain was too strong and the USA stepped in. Eventually Germany would lose the war. WoundedDeadPOW Officers2532810 Men4855769167

18. THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND

19. THE TITANIC Another tragic event that took place in the 1910s was the sinking of HMS Titanic. When it was built it was the grandest passenger vessel of all time and was said to be unsinkable. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were between 1,490 and 1,635 deaths

20. ANY OTHER EXTRA INFORMATION The 1910s was nothing like the time we are in now This is what the teachers in the 1910s did to you if you were bad. The fashion in those days were cool because they wore really long dresses like the picture down there also men`s fashion was also cool because they wore top hats and really long jackets but the poor men did not wear top hats, fancy jackets or cool trousers they just wore a flat cap a t-shirt and trousers. This is how they bathed their babys in those days. William Howard Taft was the 1910s presidant of the united states. Here are some authors who were famouse in the 1910s. Like for example, Frances Hodgson Burnett who wroteThe Secret garden and also J. M. Barrie who wrote peter pan.

21. THE EPIC 1910S QUIZ 1.Can you name 3 different 1910s food? 2. What role did women do during the world war one? 3.Can you name four different sports in the 1910s? 4. What was the name of the united states president in the 1910s? 5.Can you list 3 ways in which cars in the 1910s looked like? 6.What was the punishment in schools like in the 1910s? 7. Can you name two famous books from the 1910s? 8. Can you name two different singers in the 1910s?