1. Starter: Read the diary entry and answer the questions!!

2. Learning Targets
Must name one city which grew during the industrial revolution
Should describe living conditions during the industrial revolution
Could explain the words terraces and back to back

3. Task: Use the sources around the room to complete the table.

4. Source A
Towns got bigger during the industrial revolution – people came to the towns in their thousands to look for work!
Town
Population in 1750
Population in 1801
Population 1851
Liverpool
35,000
82,000
376,000
Leeds
14,000
53,000
172,000
Sheffield
12,000
45,000
150,000

5. Source B
‘Broken panes in every window frame…and vermin in every nook. With the walls…black with smoke from the chimneys of factories…people use old sacks for beds and floors are unwashed from year to year’
Government Report 1842

6. Source C
One family would occupy each floor. The attic and cellar were used to house families also. Toilets would be at the end of the street. One per street!

7. Source D
People lived next to the factories! 1. 2

8. Source E
‘In one group of 26 streets…the ground was covered with sewage which leaked into the cellars. A pool, over a metre deep, was found in one cellar under the bed where the family slept.’
Source: Newspaper report 1845

9. Source F
Terraces: These are houses which are connected to one another in long rows to form streets
Back to back: These are houses which are in rows of terraces. Attached to the back of these houses are another row of houses. Back to back housing do not have gardens. They are cheap to build and save on space.

10. Source G The diagram below shows back to back housing L Street P
Water pump
Lavatory
Rows of terraced housing – the houses behind would face another street
Heaps of human manure

11. Extension and Homework:
After spending a week in industrial Britain, you send a postcard home. Use your own words and those on the sheet to help you describe what life is like here.

12. Odd one out! Decide which of the 5 are the odd one out!
Clean. Waste. Smell.
Terrace. Cramped. Detached.
Cramped. Overpopulated. Open space.
High death rate. Disease. Low death rate.
Factories. Healthy. Smoke