Being a child in the 19th century in England

Children job in coals mines and chimeney sweeps

There jobs were very difficult for children . The children started to work at mine years old .

Coals mines:

The children who worked in coals mines his in dangerous because there were toxics gaz . The children were often sick because mines are very damp.

The children are very dirty because there were many charbon . The children worked in mines for he create the underground in LONDON .

Chimeney sweeps:

The children sometimes grave to roof and grave in chimeney .The children could suffocated or brick was grave to children . The children swept chimeney because sometimes had problems .

Children jobs.

The familly at the victorian age, in the factory.

Emma, Claire et Kayleigh

Il you were a child from a poor family at the beginning of the victorian times, you worked and worked and worked,,,

The working condition for children during the Victorian times ?

The children worked very hard and long hours.

With little break and no fresh air. They often worked in dangerous conditions. The yong chilndren were expected to work,

There was no education for poor children, There was paid very little because they was yomger,

Why didn't refuse to work ?

Many children didn't chance. They needed to help family.

Working Children

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The children worked was very hard and difficult is machinized factories, mines and chimey sweeping. They work for 16 hours a day. So the accident was very commun. In one cottonmill ther was 6 death and 66 mutilation in 1 year.

-Chimney Sweeps:

This work was dangerous and painful. Some boy going stuck and died of suffocation. In 1832 the use of boys for sweeping was fonbider by law.

-Factories:

In textile mills childrens were made to clear machines while the machines were kept running, and there were many accidents. Many children lost fingers in the machinery and some were killed, crushed by the hugemachinery.

-Street children:

Throusands of poor children lived and worked in the street they was many orphans other were simply reglected to by bread they sold matches, firewood, buttons, flowers or bootlaces, polished shoes, and swept the crossing places were rich people crossed the busy roads.

Rich kids

RICH KIDS by Solenn, Clara and Audrey

Rich kids had a luxurious life.They had a very good food and ate their fill.

They had a good living hygiene, they always were clean.

They had well clothes.Girls had beautiful dresses with accessories like sunshades,

purses, gloves and hats.

Boys had suits, scarves, shirts,

jackets and hats.

They didn't need to work so they went to school. School was not free until 1891 so the poor kids couldn't go to school.Rich kids learnt reading, writing, arithmetic and religion.They sat on hard wooden benches or chairs.They had school from 9 a.m to12 p.m.They often went home for a meal and after returned at school from 2 p.m to 5 p.m.

During their free time they played with their toys.Girls played with dolls, tea sets, china and wax dolls.Boys played with toy soldiers, marbles and clockwork trains sets.They had, too, rocking horses with real horses hair manes and beautiful dolls houses.They used inventions of the 19^th century for their leisure like the first paddle steamships to travel ; ice cream, jelly babies or chocolate easter eggs for greedy kids and library for their studies.

This was the life of the rich kids in the 19^th century !

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queen victoria

Queen Victoria

by Juliette, Andréa and Alisone

Victoria was born on 24th may in 1819 at Kensigton, London. Victoria learnt to speack english at three years old. Victoria didn't go to school. She was taught at home. She studied history geography and the Bible. Victoria was christened "Alexandrina Victoria". Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe - Country - Saalfed

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and Empress of India (1876-1901). Her reign was the longest of any monarch in British history Queen. Victoria had many homes. She lived in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Osborne House and Balmoral Castle. Queen Victoria loved singing and she enjoyed painting and drawing. She loved going to the opera. At the age of 21. She married her cousin , they married on the 10th February 1840. Victoria had 9 children, 40 grand-children and 37 great grand-children. Queen Victoria reigned for exactly sixty-three years, seven months and 2 days. The Queen died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81 years. Victoria was buried in mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor

RICH KIDS IN THE VICTORIAN TIME

RICH FAMILY

They lived in beautiful suburbs sometimes in private hotels.The parents of rich children often were bankers, industrial merchants or civil servants.

Rich children went on holydays because their parents had money and didn't need it.

The upper classe organized parties and could go to festivals whereas the poor worked.

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RICH KIDS AT SCHOOL

When Queen Victoria initially came to the trone:school was for rich.Only boys went to school whereas girls stayed at home for their education.the school was not free until 1891, rich kids had to pay to go to school.

Teachers were often strict and by modern standards very scary.

Children who were slow at their lessons, or dumb, were made to wear a dunce's hat, a pointed hat with the letter D on it.

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RICH KIDS' TOYS

Boys played with soldiers and marbles.Girls played with dolls and tea-sets. Toys that made pictures move like the taumathrope were enjoyed. There were also the rocking horse, dolls houses for girls and clock work train sets for boys.

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CHILDREN'S LIFE

Children from rich families were typically taught at home by gouverness until the age of 10 years old.The life was not the same for all children depended on their family

In 1830 s,children could wave at puffing steam trains on the railways.

In 1860 s they rode bicycles, watched airships, ate tinned food, and talked excitedly of the latest huge iron steamships.

In 1880 s lucky children could speak on the telephone.

In 1890 s they could travel by motor car.

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By Abel K, Enzo C, Loïc M, Thomas L !!!!!!

Factory workers required by Sebastien, Guillaume and Matthew.

Factory workers required

As England became an industrial contry, milions of children worked in the new mechanized factories. This was seen as good worked compared to the mine or chimney sweeping but it was dangerous. The children slept very little. The children eat very little. This work requiere a lot of energy.

Most people, including worked a 12 hour day. Many factory owners put profit above the health and safety of their workers.