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Due to poor wages paid to the workers, people could not sustain themselves sufficiently. Also, the number of members per family was quite large. This consequently led to cases of death due to starvation and destitution.

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Children from rich families had nurseries or playrooms with nice toys to play with. Girls enjoyed playing with their doll’s houses and boys played with tin soldiers. Later in the century boys also started playing with clockwork trains. Children from poor families had to make their own toys. They made their dolls using clothes pegs and played with paper windmills. Poor children had to save their pocket money to buy marbles, skipping ropes and cheap wooden toys. Outdoor games for Victorian children included playing with hoops and spinning tops.

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Girls skirts might be shorter than the adult skirt. Little girls skirts would go down to the knees. Then around ten years af age the length would be somewhere around mid-calf. Around the age of 16 a girls skirt would be full length down to the ankles just like their mothers.

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By modern standards young Victorian boys dressed like girls. They mainly wore frocks and pleated skirts until the age of three or four. Sometime around the 1860’s the Scottish Highlander look became popular complete with plaid skirt and all.

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At the start of the 19th century very few children went to school. Most poor children worked. If they went to school, their families lost the money they earned.

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Coal mines | Laundry for pay
Chimney Sweep | Sweated Trades
Factory Worker | Matchmaking
Scare the birds from the fields | Pottery Making
Farm Worker | Textile Mill
Ship Yard | Pick Pocket
Seller in the Streets | Rail station
Domestic Servant | Hat Making
Rat Catcher | Prostitution

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At the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly celebrated. Many businesses did not even consider it a holiday. However by the end of the century it had become the biggest annual celebration and took on the form that we recognise today.