Loans Box – Victorian Life
£0.00 – £15.00
Loans Box 7 Victorian Life
Key Stages 1/2
Subjects : History, science, Technology, RE
The Victorian Life box contains an extraordinarily large range of material, reflecting a period of rapid change as branded goods became mass-produced and accessible to a wider section of the population. Nevertheless strong social divisions remained, and the contents also allude to the oppressed lives of domestic servants in the Victorian era.
Box Contents
| Tin Trunk |
| Washboard |
| Copper Posser |
| Wooden Posser |
| Small Wooden Posser for Woollens and Silks |
| Carpet Beater |
| Butter pats |
| Chamber candlestick & 2 candles |
| Trivet for the range |
| Button hook x2 |
| One lady’s white glove and glove stretchers |
| Pair white leather lady’s gloves |
| Child’s bloomers (Winter) |
| Wooden doll (Man) |
| Chatterbox book |
| Child’s penny magazine |
| Child’s clog soles |
| Silhouette picture |
| Victorian cholera notice (Hartlepool) |
| Selection of cartes de visite (12) |
| Baby’s bottle |
| Dibs in a bag |
| Box of Victorian bricks |
| Tin of Victorian tip finds |
| Tailless donkey game |
| Slate and slate pencil |
| Child’s Bonnet |
| Mop Caps x 2 |
| Chamber Pot |
| Starched Collar X 3 |
| Gents’ Vanity Case |
| Queen Victoria Jubilee mug |
| Crimper (Frills on clothes) |
| 1949 magazine about Victoria and Albert |
| Copper Foot Warmer |
| Black Mourning Dress & Lace Wrap |
| Scrapbook cut-outs |
| Brass Coach Lamp |
| Full size Union Flag |
| Victorian Embroidery Sampler |
| Child’s Abacus |
| 3x B+W photos of miners |
| Books & CDs |
| Victorian Life |
| The Victorian Age |
| How We used to Live (Victorians) |
| You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Victorian Miner |
| The Collier |
| CD & Book Horrible Histories – Villainous Victorians |
| CD Mining Sounds |
| Victorian Household Replica Pack (1) | |
| 1 | Servants Licence |
| 2 | Blanket Price List |
| 3 | Smoke Ball Leaflet |
| 4 | Exchange and Mart |
| 5 | 11 Misc advertising Cards |
| 6 | Household Furnishings (Catalogue) |
| 7 | Water Purifying Leaflet |
| 8 | Gas Lighting Advert |
| 9 | Cabinet Makers Invoice |
| Victorian Household Replica Pack (2) |
| Servants Licence |
| Electric Corset leaflet |
| Smoke Ball Leaflet |
| Exchange and Mart |
| 12 Misc advertising Cards |
| Household Furnishings |
| Water Purifying Leaflet |
| Gas Lighting Advert |
| Enos leaflet |
| Photographers advert with photos |
| Grocery bill |
| Night Light Advert |
| Activity/ Display/Scrap Book Photocopiable Resource | |
| Family Budget | |
All boxes are available for you to borrow free of charge during 2021 for up to two weeks for your school, childcare centre or for your child/youth group, with a limit of two boxes at any one time (kindly sponsored by who is it?). The boxes are also available for home schooling, subject to availability. The charge for homeschool use is £15 including VAT per box for a 2-week rental. Please choose the applicable option when booking.
- All rentals run from a Saturday to the Saturday 2 weeks later. Booking is online only, and the calendar below indicates when this particular box is available. Click on your desired Saturday booking start date, the system will then temporarily reserve your chosen 2-weeks, so that you may proceed to the basket to complete your booking.
- Your chosen loans box must be returned to Bailiffgate Museum with all its items* by the second Saturday (note the system will also reserve the following week for the box to be checked and cleaned before re-use)
- We regret that we are unable to offer a delivery or collection service.
- Adult supervision is required at all times of use. Children must wash their hands thoroughly after handling the artefacts, as some of them may contain lead-based paints.
- Also available: book a session either morning or afternoon with a box (as available) in the Museum. This costs £7.50 including VAT plus the normal museum admission charges. This is a group-led, not a museum-led activity. Use our separate booking page for this.
* See our Terms and Conditions for the charges for late return and missing items. Booking automatically accepts these terms.
