Life as a Victorian Child

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Life as a Victorian Child

• By Charlotte Lamzed-short
• And
• Beth Poncelet

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School

• In the Victorian Times the girls and the boys sat
  separately-they even went through different
  doors-the girls did sewing, manners and writing
  and the boys did woodwork and drawing. But when
  the cane is out it is whack! whack! To one of my
  friends

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Play time

• In the playground the Victorian children played
  Hopscotch, marbles, hoops and skipping.
• Playing marbles was for girls and boys.

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What type of work the children did

• Mining
• Maids
• Factory work
• Mill work
• Bird scaring
• Door opener in the mine

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Every Day Life

• Every day life was like the same day. The
  children woke up to school or to go to work as a
  maid or a door opener in the mine or working in
  the factory picking up the bits of fluff off of
  the floor.

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Life expectancy

• Lie expectancy was influenced by a number of
  factors. This ment that the living conditions of
  the poor were so appalling that they would be
  unrecognisable today.
• Open sewers were commonplace and were breeding
  grounds for germs and disease.
• The situation was highlighted by queen Victoria
  and prince Albert. Life expectancy has increased
  enormously and on average now we live at least 25
  years longer than in the Victorian times. The
  life expectancy is 40 years.

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Who helped the Victorian children

• Dr Thomas John Barnodo
• Helped children on the streets to find a home.
• Children whos parents had died or who were to
  poor to provide for them ofted ended up on the
  street. In the 1870s Barndo's estimated there
  were as many as 30,000 children sleeping rough in
  London.
• In 1870 he set up his first home of many to care
  for such children in East London.

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Lord Shaftsbury

• Lord Shaftsbury
• Helped working children
• He was a politician who fought in parliament for
  laws to protect working children. In 1842 the
  mines act prevented children working underground
  in mines. In 1876 a factory act raised the
  minimum working age to 10. Shaftsbury fought for
  many years for chimney sweeps to be banned but an
  effective act of parliament wasnt passed until
  1875.

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