Phoebe's World

Bedroom

Stars & Moon Pyjamas

Giant African Land Snails

Small attic bedroom in a small Victorian terrace

Colourful stripey rug on grey carpet

Posters e.g. planets, minibeasts, wild flowers

Bookcase with MG novels, PBs from childhood and Nonfiction e.g. Skeletons

Messy with clothes on the floor, books, drawing things

Small Victorian terrace of grey stone, high up, overlooking park with trees; small but pretty garden

Tall terrace house in a row of workers's terraces, dirty red brick, set on a side road of similar houses

Basement kitchen for cooking, washing up, laundry with a black range and tin bath; only room with hot water

Small and crowded living room with a fire place, mantelpiece, Large table and chairs, 2 armchairs, dresser, small chest, plants, mirrors, rugs, book case, thick velvet curtains, lamp on the table, wall lamps

Girls' bedroom: washstand with bowl and flower decorated jug of water; very cold with no heating, large sash window and heavy flowery curtains; large chest; large bed with iron bedstead; assorted rugs on the floor, small fireplace but not lit

Outdoors: shared privies, wash-houses; washing strung up across the street

Basement shoe-maker's workshop

Horses pulling trams, carriages,, carts, wagons and with horse droppings in the streets

Crowded streets in the town centre with horse drawn vehicles, bicycles and barrows jostling for space; stopped trams and buses causing congestion

Crowded pavements in town centre with people rushing about and with many different kinds of street sellers e.g. pies, pots and pans, birds in cages, flowers, watercress; children playing

Pollution: tall chimneys with smoke billowing out and then falling back onto the city as soot; soot covered buildings and streets; smoky smell; lack of trees or greenery

Smaller backstreets, yards and courtyards with groups of children hanging aroun, playing noisy street games

Porters Lodge: brick walled room with a large desk and chair behind, smaller table and chair; leads off to offices on one side and the main residential blocks on the other; portraits of the Leeds Board of Guardians

Located on Beckett Street on the outskirts of town; overlooking the town; tall and imposing building dominates the landscape; lawns & trees to the front; focus on facilities for pauper children initially but main workhouse with infirmary & chapel opened 1861, nw infirmary 1872

3 storey building constructed of red brick with stone detailing & a Welsh slate roof; main entrance through an arched doorway; stone sign 'Moral and Industrial Training School 1848); 3 storey & 16 pane window lights stairwell beyond; 3 storey bay windows to each side & Dutch gables; 9 bay wing each side of central block

Boys in North wing & girls in South wing; children divided by age; 2-6 yrs; 6 to 10 yrs; 10 to 16 yrs; some older inmates; Master & Matron each have an office and sitting room; teacher's common room in the central block; school chapel in central block; separate staircase for each wing

Ground floor of girls' wing: clothing store; bathroom; day room e.g. sewing; dairy; larder

School room on the first floor; maps on the wall, and books, individual desks; inkwells & pens; book shelves;

Dormitories on the 2nd floor (plus teacher's room; toilets) 30 beds in two lines, with beds close together; clothes stored in cases under the bed; plain walls

Exercise yard; outer all of courtyard created a covered walkway so children could exercise in the rain; daily routine included cricket; extended walks twice a week; trips to Harewood House & the theatre

Industrial training in the ground floor wings of the rear block; most of the girls' wing was a wash house; girls did domestic duties around the school & sewing; the Guardians monitored children once apprenticed

Mrs Stott's Living room; red glow; thick red velevet curtains, polished wood desk and matching chairs, huge fire & mantelpiece,thick patterned rugs, plush armchairs, side-tables, plants, mirrors, book lined shelves, collections of small objects, some in glass cages, books on the desk, a School Day book, a personal journel; incense smell sometimes