1. The Victorians By Ashleigh Hanna Enter

2. Contents Queen Victoria Victorian factories Victorian homes Victorian schools Victorian inventions Victorian toys and games Back

3. Queen Victoria Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1876 when she was still queen. In 1840 she married prince Albert and had nine children. She reined for 63 years 7 months and 2 days longer than any other British monarch. When she died she got burred in Frogmore. She was made queen of the UK and Ireland on the 20 th of June 1837. Back

4. Victorian factories Children working in factories had no rights at all. A normal week for a child would be from Monday to Saturday 6AM to 8PM. Just because the children were small they got given the dirtiest jobs E.G. chimney sweeps, toilet maid or going under a machine while it was running to tie pieces of thread together. They where also regularly seriously injured or even killed during their jobs. back

5. Victorian homes Many rich children would live in a large house with many rooms. Rich Victorians would have a nannie to look after the children cooks to make the food and servants to serve it. Poor Victorians often lived in 1 room. They had large family's so there would be people living in a small space with no plumbing or electricity. Vast overcrowding and unsanitary conditions turned into areas into slums most slums where in the east end of London. back

6. Victorian schools In 1880 it was made a law that children between 5 and 10 had to go to school. There was anywhere between 70 to 80 pupils in one class together. There was mostly female teachers because the girls have to learn sewing witch the female teachers taught the girls how to sew. Some of their lessons where the 3rs witch were: arithmetic, reading and writing they are called the 3rs because they all have r in. back

7. Victorian inventions In 1851 ice cream was invented and later on in the Victorian era it becomes a popular snack. The first official photograph was taken in the 1830s it was a beautiful picture of queen Victoria and some of her children. One of the greatest inventions was the telephone that was invented by Alexander Bell. In 1859 the post box arrived and it was green. back

8. Victorian toys and games Toys where very expensive in the Victorian times even wealthy children had very few toys. The wealthiest children had a rocking horse with real horses mane. The poor children had a piece of string to use as a skipping rope. They used to play with E.G. marbles, hoop and stick, spinning tops, yoyo, quoits and toy theatres if they where lucky enough. back