Yesterday we went to the People’s Palace to learn all about when granny was a girl.

At the museum we spoke to Mary, a granny who was born in the 1950s. She told us that she lived in a single end house with one room and ten people living there! There were no washing machines so people went to the Steamie and used a wash board and a mangle. The soap was so smelly! It was called carbolic soap.

We learned that they used a chamber pot for the toilet that some people called a “goesunder” because it goes under the chair!

There weren’t any super markets; they used local shops like butchers, bakers and grocers to get all their shopping each day.

They had different coins like a half penny and a three pence piece.

They would beat their rugs instead of using a hoover and to iron they would need to heat up the stove!

We had a brilliant time at the museum and learned lots of new information!