By Sadie Hooper

Victorians

QU EEN VICTOR IA’S L IFE

- She was born on May 24th 1819 and died on January 22nd 1901.

- She married her German cousin Prince Albert.

- Queen Victoria was the first person to pick up a telephone and put up a Christmas tree.

- She had 9 children.

- She was the first British queen to have her picture taken.

VICTORIAN FASHION

Men wore a top hat ,bow tie and a posh jacket ,unlike what we wear today.

Women wore a big puffy dress and high heels.

Children, if they worked in the workhouse would wear a special workhouse uniform ,so if they tried to escape people would know wear to send them.

VICTORIAN TOYS

Most toys in victorian times were made of wood.

Girls played with things such as tea sets, doll houses, rocking horses that had fur tails.

Only rich people had rocking horses and tea sets and dolls houses.

The poor people made their own toys like peg dolls.

Rich boys played with things like Noahs ark and wooden soldiers.

VICTORIAN TRANSPORT

Most people rode around on horses and carts.

Rich people drove around in motor cars.

Some people rode steam trains to go on holidays.

Quite a few people rode on Barges which is a type of boat.

GEORGE STEPHENSON

George stephenson is mostly known by his invension THE ROCKET.

George stephenson was thinking of another way to get around so he created a train.

George stephenson had a son called Edward.

V I C T O R I A N S C H O O L S

In victorian schools if someone got a question wrong they had to stand in the corner and wear a hat with a d on it that meant dunce.

As a pen they had to use a feather and ink which was called a quill.

If their handwriting wasn’t great they would use a chalk board.