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5Blue’s visit to the Black Country Museum

Mrs Street

Today we visited the Black Country Museum!

We experienced what a Victorian Main Street was like. We visited the general store, pawn brokers, a hardware store and a chemist.


What types of things could you buy at a hardware store? Can you explain what the items in these photographs were used for?

In the chemist window, there were two large coloured bottles. What was the purpose of these?

It was important in Victorian time to be fit enough for work. There were no benefits or an National Health Service like we have today. As doctors were expensive, many people chose to visit the chemist as an alternative. What would be a consequence for a family if the parents couldn’t work?

We looked at different types of housing including a rich house, back to back houses and a poor cottage. Describe the layout and the features they included.

Today we live through the pandemic of COVID. What pandemic did the Victorians live through and what caused it?


We attended a mine gas show. We learnt about the different Minerals found in Black Country area.How was limestone used? How was coal used?

How was coal mining dangerous?  Why didn’t they give the children candles? Which animals were used to ensure there was no gas in the mine?

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16 responses to “5Blue’s visit to the Black Country Museum”

  1. Zakariya K.

    In the hardware store you could buy animal traps. The two bottles in the chemist were for people who couldn’t read and by looking at it you could tell it was a chemist. The consequences of people who don’t work and can’t afford medicines might be very ill or they die. Victorian people had oil lamps and fires. The disease in the Victorian times was cho.era and this was to drink water that might kill you. Lime Stone was made to make steel and coal was to make fires. Coal mining was very dangerous. Children weren’t allowed candles because they’d eat it.

  2. Naimol A.

    I like the trip

  3. Joel G.

    1) The stuff you could buy at the hardware shop is a stove,cloths cleaner,a dollie(a machine used to clean the water out of your towel)
    and a fly trap to trap flies.
    2) The purpose of the two large bottles is that people will know that it is the chemists because people could not read the sign that says chemists.
    3) The consequences might be that the children might die of a sickness
    because doctor’s and hospitals were too expensive.
    4) Coal was used to hear up the house because there was no central heating in the Victorian times.
    Limestone was used to make steel.
    5) Coal mining was dangerous because it was really dark and the could get themselves really ingured.
    The animal that was used to insure no gas in the mine was a canary.

  4. Faizan R.

    In the hardware store you could buy , cockroach traps, mouse traps , butterfly traps and a filter spoon.

    In the Chemist shop the 2 bottles purpose way to show this is a chemist shop.

    If the family could not work the consequence would be would be that they couldn’t afford to visit doctors , and couldn’t afford to get treated , so they had to rely on the Chemist.

    The coal mine was dangerous because it was dark and filled with poisonous gasses and could collapse any time , it was also hard to work in because it was hard to breathe in the mine.

    The animals were the first to go into the mine because if they died that would mean there were poisonous gasses contained.

    The layout was a single one room . You could only eat , sleep and wash in that room if you were poor.

    There was a plague and cholera disease in the Victorian days and it was caused by rats and unclean area.

  5. Brooke M.

    What types of things could you buy at a hardware store? Can you explain what the items in these photographs were used for?
    we could buy a mouse trap or a cockroach trap also a rug or carpet cleaner.
    In the chemist window, there were two large coloured bottles. What was the purpose of these?
    the purpose was to tell if it was a chemist because they might not of been able to read the sighn.
    What would be a consequence for a family if the parents couldn’t work?
    the family would have to move to the workhouse and they would most likely get separated.
    We looked at different types of housing including a rich house, back to back houses and a poor cottage. Describe the layout and the features they included?
    in the poor cottages there was a small living room with barley any room and in the rich houses there was quite a lot of space and there was more comfier furniture they also had a wash room and pantry kind of thing but the poor hoses would have to have one space.
    Today we live through the pandemic of COVID. What pandemic did the Victorians live through and what caused it?
    #smallpox
    #plague
    We attended a mine gas show. We learnt about the different Minerals found in Black Country area. How was limestone used? How was coal used?
    lime stone-
    #it is a major ingredient in toothpaste
    #it can be used as food additive to provide calcium irons for strong teeth and bones.

  6. Jasmine M.

    1. In the hardware store you could buy mouse traps, cleaning products, fly trapper and a metal iron.
    In the first photograph the barrel and the stick was used for washing clothes. In the fourth photograph, it was a mouse trap so if there was a mouse in the house you could use the mouse trap.
    2. The two large coloured bottles were shown that it was a chemist.
    3. The Victorians went through a water pandemic.
    Lime stone was made from iron and coal is dangerous because it could cause lung disease.
    In the Victorians, they didn’t give candles to children because they were made of animals and if they dropped the candles on the floor something bad might happen.
    Birds were ensure that there was no gas in the mine.

  7. Tahiyan C.

    1.In an hardware store you could buy traps for rats and you could buy a lot of carpets
    2.The purpose of the big bottles is because there are children that were poor and they did not know how to read or write and they had to bring medicines for their parents and the bottles helped them to understand
    3. The consequence of it is that they could not feed their children because they needed the medicines
    4. In the victorians they had a lot of diseases and that made them die
    5.limestone made iron and coal was used for chimneys and for torches
    6.coal mining was dangerous because the coal could fall into them and as asoffocate them. Children were not given candles because they thought they could burn everything. Birds were the animals to ensure that there was no gas.

  8. Zainab A.

    There were to large bottles in the chemist to show were you get medicine from.
    A lime stone was made for iron.
    In the hard way store are cockroaches traps

  9. Zahra A.

    1)At an hardware store They would get food to eat and an mouse trap just In case if their is a mouse so you can trap.
    2)Also they would get cockroach traps to trap cockroaches.
    3)And also they would get carpet cleaner to clean their tidy and clean.
    4)The two bottles at the chemist they were there because parent’s couldn’t afford to let their children go to school and when children see them it help them know it’s a chemist because they could not read because they did not go school.

  10. Muhammad S.

    You we’re aloud to buy rat traps
    They didn’t like rat
    They would have lots of medicine
    Lung desiese will make you die

  11. Luxor A.

    I was not there. Don’t know answer.

  12. Safa M.

    1 in the hardware store they would buy cockroach traps and these carpet cleaners that look like brushes but made with wood.
    2 the purpose of the 2 bottles are because in the Victorian times not many people went to school because it was to expensive so they couldn’t read so they put 2 bottles to show its a chemist shop.
    3 Lime stone was used to make iron
    4 coal mining was dangerous because people could get lung disease the reason why they didn’t give them candles because they were made of animal fat mostly lamb fat and so the children couldn’t eat them so they poisoned the candles and when the children got the candles they would leave it on the floor so the rats would come and eat it so they die.
    Canaries were used so they could see the gas.
    A disease happened in 1840 called cholera in Mecca in 1846 which was caused by dirty water so they had to boil the water to make sure it’s clean and not dirty.
    The houses always included a picture of Queen Victoria, a furnace and candles

  13. Lawy A.

    1. You can buy traps dor rats.
    2. They were used for washing and traps and killing bees.
    1. So children knew what shop it was.
    2. They would have to buy medicine instead of bills and food.
    1. Lung diesese so they could die.

  14. Aisha R.

    In hardware stores you could get traps for mice, rats and crock roaches. You could also get a rug or carpet cleaner to clean your rug/carpet and skates to put on the bottom of your shoes (if you had any) when the rivers would freeze up and get too cold.The Victorians lived through a water pandemic when they would boil their water since they would poo and pee in it and it would get all dirty.Coal mining was dangerous because of all the gases underground like methane.The two large coloured bottles outside the chemist would represent a symbol that this was the chemist. This is because if you were poor you had to do work instead of school so you had no education. You couldn’t read or write so the chemist put the large bottles outside to show that this was the chemist.

  15. Gufran E.

    They would use cockroach traps , rat and mouse traps , an iron and a carpet cleaner.
    There was two large coloured bottles to make it obvious it was a chemist shop.
    In the Victorian era they had cholera . This came from dirty water . If you didn’t boil it properly you could get ill or die .

    Limestone was used to make iron which is used for many things .

    Working in the coal mine is dangerous because there can be an explosion and the roof might fall

    Giving the candle to children is dangerous because they may drop it and cause something bad to happen
    Birds were used to ensure there were no has in the mine .

  16. Maryam G.

    At a hardware store there was stuff like fly catchers to kill flies, the old fashioned laundry, a rat trap to trap rats, scorpion traps and a floor cleaner to prevent your carpet getting dusty.
    There was two large coloured bottles because this shows that this is a chemist shop.
    A consequence for the family and couldn’t work was if they got badly injured while working in a dangerous place such as the mines.
    Limestone was used to make steel and coal was used to heat up homes and to ride on a steam engine.
    Coal mining was dangerous because rocks could fall on your head and they could be big and badly injure you or maybe they could even kill you.
    They did not give children candles because they could be irresponsible and burden themselves and while walking they might drop the candle and it will cause a great disaster.

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