Cameron Lord

This pack has been designed to complement the national curriculum and can be used with children studying unit 11a – Victorian Britain, and unit 7 – local history. The pack consists of images (from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century) of Victorian Manchester and activities based around these images.

The pack contains images of central Manchester, ‘Brooks Bank, Chancery Lane’, ‘Oxford Road and Longford Mills’, ‘Portland Street Warehouses’ and the ‘Central Station’. These can be down-loaded and printed for the children to have in front of them. There are questions accompanying each image for children to answer and associated activities to undertake.

The following pack is a Microsoft Word document (Victorian Manchester) and is 3 Megabytes in size.

It can be downloaded by clicking on the right hand mouse button on the above link and choosing “Save Target As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Netscape Communicator)

The newspaper pack has been designed for use at key stage 2 and 3 and aims to enhance the national curriculum through the use of original source material.

Use is made of transcriptions and photographs of Manchester’s newspapers from around 1900 and asks students to consider attitudes of the time and make comparisons between past and present.

Included is a concise history of the newspaper industry in Manchester during the Victorian period and an outline of the history of printing. There are many activities within the pack and suggestions for group activities and projects. The pack also includes timelines, suggested answers to questions, information for teachers and ideas for further individual and class activities.

This pack is part of a series of education packs developed from original resources held at Greater Manchester County Record Office. Other areas covered include Victorian Manchester and the Cotton Industry. Further material concerning Workhouses, Lunatic Asylums and Transport will be available in the near future.

The local newspapers pack is a Adobe PDF document (Local Newspapers.pdf) and is 2.8Megabytes in size.

It can be downloaded by clicking on the right hand mouse button on the above link and choosing “Save Target As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Netscape Communicator)

This new education pack, the third in a projected series of five independently themed packs, centres on the treatment of mental illness in Victorian Greater Manchester, and gives an insight into the standards of the times.

It gives a background to the development of policies and attitudes towards the mentally ill, and how this relates to other aspects of Victorian society. It focuses mainly on Prestwich Lunatic Asylum, established in 1846, which still exists as a specialist hospital.

The records for this hospital are split between GMCRO and Lancashire Record Office, which has admission registers prior to 1891.

The sources used include extracts from a patient case book, extracts from Staff Obligation books, details of the diet the patients would have had, and a plan of the asylum.

This pack covers both the Victorian Britain, and Local History aspects of the National Curriculum, and is aimed at Key Stages 1-3. It should be noted that some of the sources may not be suitable for younger children. It includes original sources, with questions and activities designed to stimulate learning. It is hoped that the use of original sources in our education packs will promote the use of archives in the classroom.

The file (Asylums.pdf) is available in Adobe PDF format and is 1.05Mb in size.

It can be downloaded by clicking on the right hand mouse button on the above link and choosing “Save Target As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Netscape Communicator)

Victorian Manchester Cotton Industry Local Newspapers Lunatic Asylums Feedback
This specially designed education pack, aimed at Key Stages 1-3, covers the development of the Cotton Industry in Greater Manchester, and its importance to people’s lives, and the development of the area.

It includes photographic sources taken from the Documentary Photography Archive and from our extensive archival resources.

The pack includes a personal account from a “little piecer” in a cotton mill (with thanks to the North West Sound Archive ), a copy of an indenture for a young apprentice in the cotton trade (dated 1819), and a poster of rules to be observed in the mill (with thanks to Oldham Local Studies and Helmshore Textile Museum.) There are many activities designed to stimulate learning, and cultivate an interest in history and an understanding of the importance of original source material. There are also notes for teachers and suggested answers to the questions in the pack.

This pack is designed to fit in with the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stages 1-3, relating to Victorian England and Local History studies.

It includes original sources, with questions and activities designed to stimulate learning. It is hoped that the use of original sources in our education packs will promote the use of archives in the classroom.

This is the first in a series of similar packs, covering Workhouses, Lunatic Asylums, Transport and Local Newspapers in Victorian times.

The cotton industry pack is a Adobe PDF document (Cotton Industry) and is 1.3 Megabytes in size.

It can be downloaded by clicking on the right hand mouse button on the above link and choosing “Save Target As” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As” (Netscape Communicator)