Queen Victoria
I asked Mummy to teach me about the Victorians. I like to hear about the olden days. The Victorians were from 1837 until 1901 and they are called the Victorians because Queen Victoria ruled the country.
Until she was Queen, most children had to work as servant girls, in coal mines or up chimneys instead of going to school. I thought I would like that, but then Mummy said they usually worked long hours and didn’t get much time to talk and play.
We talked about the food they might eat. I thought they would eat toast done under the grill, but Mummy said they didn’t have cookers like ours, they had ranges like our woodburner. They used candles and gas lamps and played the piano and made their own toys.
They didn’t have toilets like we do and some grown ups wee’d in big pottys that the servants had to empty. I wouldn’t like to be the servant girl who had that job!
We talked about the clothes too. I would like to wear a long dress and an apron with boots with a hat. I think that would look nice. I want to learn lots more about them - they invented lots of things like flushing toilets, the car, light bulbs and the telephone.
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That made me laugh about grown - ups weeing in a potty, how horrid to have to empty it. My grandad said his mummy had a chamber pot at nighttime and a toilet in the garden. He is 75 now. I like the Victorian clothes too and dressed up in some on my birthday.
Love Hannah
To Hannah,
isn’t it great that we like sharing the same interests. My most Victorian clothes is a red dress with white lace around the neck, my blue shoes and straw hat with a red ribbon on.
I hope you have a good week,
Love Verona