Landulph School serves the communities of Botus Fleming, Cargreen, Hatt and Landulph

Trip to Morwellham Quay

The following reports were written by children in Class 2 after their trip to Morwellham Quay.

The Trip

Victorian Bathroom Class Two started working on the Victorians on the 5th September, 8 weeks later they decided to find out more by going to Morwellham Quay. Their first activity was dressing up as a Victorian in their Sunday Best, while they were dressing up, a girl had to pair up with a boy and have their photos taken. After they finished, Class Two took their clothes off.

Victorian Living Room Then they got onto a train that went into the copper mine, a man called Rick drove the train. In-side the mine was pitch black when Rick first stopped the train I thought we broke down! When Rick started the train again there was a great big jolt and the train moved on. Water came in the mine because the mine is deep under-ground. So the helpers or Morwellham put a pump under the ground to stop the mine flooding, to work the pump there is a water wheel to make electricity. After the cooper mine we had lunch, and then we played in the park, after we had all finished we went rope making it was really hard. At on end of the spiral half of the group went up to the top and turned the spiral anti-clockwise to twist the rope the make it solid, the other half of the group went to the bottom and twisted the other spiral clock-wise to make it stronger. The rope was to short so all the children played tug-of-war, it was really fun, then we collected the rope.

On our journey home we all talked about Morwellham Quay. My favourite part was playing tug-of-war.

By Harriet C.

Victorian Facts

Queen Victoria

Did you know...

That Queen Victoria died in 1901

Also children had horrible punishments

Queen Victoria was born in 1819

Queen Victoria became queen in 1837

Queen Victoria married Albert in 1840

Queen Victoria was queen for 64 years

Even when Victoria died their were still many children working!

Rich children had toys and books, poor children often made their toys like footballs out of rags or dolls out of pegs.

By Charlotte Hudson

Victorian Costumes

Victorian Doll's House Victorian Toys

They had a rocking horse which had real horse hair for a mane and tail.

A Victorian dolls house has 3 floors or more.

They also had a delicate china tea set that breaks very easily now a days we have plastic tea sets.

One of the favourite toys was a Noah’s ark play set; it included his family and all the pairs of animals. It was the only toy children were allowed to play with on a Sunday.

Poor children would have played with a Diablo which is a two headed top that was spun and then tossed in the air and caught on the string.

They liked spinning tops, the ball and cup game and also a game called five stone. Five stones are blue clay blocks.

Toy Soldiers Little boys had to play with metal army men their mothers and fathers bought them to persuade them to join the army when their older. To prepare them to be maids young girls played with dolls houses and tea sets.

By Katie Dymond

Victorian Children

Victorian children had to work in the mines from about 7 years of age, it really was not nice.

They were underground for 10 hours at a time and it was very small.

By Abigail Walsh

Working in a mine

Gypsy Caravan

Water Wheel

School Trips

Trip to Morwellham Quay