victorian society in the black country
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Victorian Society in the Black Country.
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WORK
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The Earl of Dudley. Upper class.
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Managers, Shopkeepers, preachers, and teachers. Middle class.
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Working class work (jobs).• Chain makers. (skilled)• Boiler makers. (skilled)• Lock smiths. (skilled)• Coal miners. (semi skilled)• Nail makers. (semi skilled)• Boatmen (bargees). (semi skilled)• Labourers. (unskilled)
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Boiler, anchor and chains.
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Chain maker.
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Forge. Steam hammer.
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Anchors
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Locksmith
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Brass screws, nuts, bolts etc.
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Nail maker’s workshop
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Cobbler
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Coal mine.
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Coal miner.
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Homes
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What to look for in homes?
• Number of bedrooms.• How many people lived here?• Do they have a parlour?• Furniture – upholstered or plain wood? • Decoration – wallpaper or limewash? Tin or
brass? Pictures on walls? • Lighting – gas or candles?
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Chain maker’s house
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Parlour.
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Fireplace in the parlour
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Bessie’s kitchen
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The range was for cooking and heating.
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Fuel
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Bath time.
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Earth closet. Bucket and chuck it!Middle class people had flush
toilets.
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Wash house.Water boiled in a copper. Clothes
washed in the dolly tub. Mangle for
getting water out of clothes
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Scrubbing the clothes using a washboard.
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Mine clerk’s house.Lower middle class.
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Parlour
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Range.
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Pantry
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Bedroom.
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Pitt’s cottage. Wash house and scullery
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Living area.
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Bedroom
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Back yard for growing vegetables and maybe keeping chickens and pigs.
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Back to back house.One up and one down.
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Bedroom. Toll House.
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Leisure
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Leisure. The Pub.
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Why was the Pub so important to the community?
• It was probably warmer and brighter than many homes.• Social life.• A place to find work.• Public bar for the men.• Saloon bar for couples.
Back room parlour for meetings e.g. sports clubs, friendly societies (insurance).
• The Pub Landlady was an important person in peoples’ lives. She was very strict. Sometimes she supported wives whose husbands had mistreated them.
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Back room of pub.
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Leisure. The Fair.
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Leisure. The Chapel.
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Why was the Chapel so important to the community?
• Almost everyone went there (three times on Sundays).• Sunday School enabled children to learn to read and
write using the Bible.• Choir. Football team. Chapel outings in the summer.• You were baptised, married and buried by the Chapel.• The Chapel supported families who were in financial
trouble.
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Methodist Chapel.
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Shopping
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General Store
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Sweets, crockery and cotton underwear.
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Drapery.Cotton and
linen.
Haberdashery.Needles,
thread, buttons etc.
Clogs and shoes.
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Tea, coffee, sugar, flour, lentils etc.
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Bacon slicer.
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Hot water bottles, soap, treacle, OXO etc.
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DAIRY. Milk, butter, cheese, eggs etc.
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Hardware shop.
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Hardware shop.
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Cast iron pots and pans. Brushes.Potato
mashers. Rope.
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Zinc buckets, churns, sieves.
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Tin baths.Dolly tubs.
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Tools.
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Chemists
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Medicines made to order.
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Pawnbroker
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Pawnbroker for when times were hard.
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Sweet shop
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Diet
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Education
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School.
• Education was compulsory after 1880.• Ages 5 to 10.• Three ‘R’s: Reading. Writing. Arithmetic.
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Queuing for school.
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Boys and girls separated.
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Jezebels. (shameless women)
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Writing on slates
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Bell monitor.
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Pounds, shillings and pence.
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Ink pots for older children.
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Rote learning.
E.g. chanting tables.
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Teacher’s desk on a dais.
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The cane.
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Women
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Banner of NFWW.
Women chain makers went on strike in
1910.
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Transport
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Horses.
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Trams
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Canal tunnel
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Narrow boats (barges)
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Towpath.
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Steam locomotives for longer journeys.
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Gas light
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