1. Victorian Society in the Black Country.

7. WORK

8. The Earl of Dudley. Upper class.

9. Managers, Shopkeepers, preachers, and teachers. Middle class.

10. 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)

11. Boiler, anchor and chains.

12. Chain maker.

13. Forge. Steam hammer.

14. Anchors

15. Locksmith

16. Brass screws, nuts, bolts etc.

17. Nail maker’s workshop

18. Cobbler

19. Coal mine.

20. Coal miner.

21. Homes

22. 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?

23. Chain maker’s house

24. Parlour.

25. Fireplace in the parlour

26. Bessie’s kitchen

27. The range was for cooking and heating.

28. Fuel

29. Bath time.

30. Earth closet. Bucket and chuck it! Middle class people had flush toilets.

31. Wash house. Water boiled in a copper. Clothes washed in the dolly tub. Mangle for getting water out of clothes

32. Scrubbing the clothes using a washboard.

33. Mine clerk’s house. Lower middle class.

34. Parlour

35. Range.

36. Pantry

37. Bedroom.

38. Pitt’s cottage. Wash house and scullery

39. Living area.

40. Bedroom

41. Back yard for growing vegetables and maybe keeping chickens and pigs.

42. Back to back house. One up and one down.

43. Bedroom. Toll House.

44. Leisure

45. Leisure. The Pub.

46. 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.

47. Back room of pub.

48. Leisure. The Fair.

50. Leisure. The Chapel.

51. 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.

52. Methodist Chapel.

53. Shopping

54. General Store

56. Sweets, crockery and cotton underwear.

57. Drapery. Cotton and linen. Haberdashery. Needles, thread, buttons etc. Clogs and shoes.

58. Tea, coffee, sugar, flour, lentils etc.

59. Bacon slicer.

60. Hot water bottles, soap, treacle, OXO etc.

61. DAIRY. Milk, butter, cheese, eggs etc.

63. Hardware shop.

65. Cast iron pots and pans. Brushes. Potato mashers. Rope.

66. Zinc buckets, churns, sieves.

67. Tin baths. Dolly tubs.

68. Tools.

69. Chemists

70. Medicines made to order.

71. Pawnbroker

73. Pawnbroker for when times were hard.

74. Sweet shop

76. Diet

77. Education

78. School. Education was compulsory after 1880. Ages 5 to 10. Three ‘R’s: Reading. Writing. Arithmetic.

79. Queuing for school.

80. Boys and girls separated.

82. Jezebels. (shameless women)

83. Writing on slates

85. Bell monitor.

86. Pounds, shillings and pence.

87. Ink pots for older children.

88. Rote learning. E.g. chanting tables.

89. Teacher’s desk on a dais.

90. The cane.

91. Women

92. Banner of NFWW. Women chain makers went on strike in 1910.

93. Transport

94. Horses.

96. Trams

98. Canal tunnel

99. Narrow boats (barges)

100. Towpath.

101. Steam locomotives for longer journeys.

102. Railway travel.

104. Gas light