Class 3 Gedney Drove End 

We created an A to Z of words that made us think about something we’ve learned about the Victorians, and used them for inspiration to write our blog posts. Some links are more obvious than others, but all of our posts are original, interesting and the result of our hard work! Enjoy 🙂

Victorian houses may look old now but they were beautiful when new. They are very big- well, mostly, because the lower class ones were about a one bedroom home, with only a fire, table and chairs, and some cupboards (so they didn’t have the best houses).

But the upper classes did! They had four bedrooms, a lovely table, four lovely chairs, a fireplace, a lot of cupboards and lights.

Lower class houses didn’t have much space so they had little room to put things so they had to use it wisely. They had about four people in a bedroom- often sharing a bed together to keep warm.

In upper class Victorian houses, they had a lot of paintings. They also had poles along the roof to hang clothes from.

Lower class houses had no wallpaper because wallpaper cost a lot of money and neither could they afford carpet because that costs a lot.

The upper classes had wallpaper and their’s was lovely. And they had carpets. Most of their carpet was old but in those days any carpet was popular.

The lower classes had their houses made out of stone so they were not very popular, But upper class houses had brick, which looked very nice.

Fact: if Victorians had a lot of money, they could buy special flower wallpaper.

Fact: kitchens were often large enough to have a table to prepare and serve food on.