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!

This week, we have been learning all about the different games and toys our grandparents would have played.

They did not have ipads or computer games. Instead, they played games like skipping, elastics, sevens and hula hooping. They would have wooden toys like rocking horses or aeroplanes and enjoyed playing with marbles.

We spent time playing some of the games our grandparents would have played.

I prefer playing the olden games because I like skipping. Miriam

I was the champion at elastics! Maya