victorian manchester

Victorian ManchesterVictorian Manchester

Queen Victoria in 1837… ..and in 1894

General Views of General Views of Victorian ManchesterVictorian Manchester

Birds Eye View of Manchester, 1898

View Over Ancoats, 1895

Queen Victoria's Jubilee Celebrations, Manchester in 1897

Street Scene from Manchester, 1887

The people & children The people & children of Victorian of Victorian ManchesterManchester

Mother & Child, 1890 Women & Child in Street, 1890

The Dancer Family, 1854

Women from the Church visiting children living in slum housing, 1893

A lady from the Church visits Slum Houses in Hulme, 1893

Victorian Children, 1890

Destitute Children, 1893

Sarah Brickill aged 11 in 1878

John Buckley Bateman, 1888

Victorian Housing and Victorian Housing and Home LifeHome Life

The two maps are both from 1891 and to the same scale. The one on the left is of an area near Deansgate. The one on the right is of Eaton Road, in Crumpsall.

Deansgate was a commercial district with shops, workers' housing and factories (such as the Alport Works). Crumpsall was a suburb some distance from the city centre where merchants and professionals had their houses.

What do you notice about the size of the houses?

Are there any parks or open fields, schools, churches or pubs?

Victorian Bed, 1892

Victorian Drawing Room, 1890

The Tylecot Family having afternoon tea in their garden, 1896

Common Lodging House in Ancoats, 1897

Lodging House, 1897

Workers Housing in Ancoats, 1893

Diagram of Back-To-Back Housing, 1850

Cellar 3Is but one room about 12x14. There are two beds in the room. 7 people live & sleep in this one room. We could learn nothing more a little girl only being in charge.

Cellar 5This cellar has 2 rooms 12x14 & 12x12 respectively. The rooms are dark and damp. The approach to the cellar from the street is not more than 2ft 6in wide and the top of the window is rather below the level of the street. The tenant has been in it only a short time but complains of damp, rats, and mice.

Cottage No 13 bed rooms a living room and the front room is used as a shop. The shop is about 12x13, living room 12x9. The bed rooms were described as being no larger. Eleven people live in this house; a man, his wife, 5 children and 4 lodgers.

Cellar Dwellings, 1838

Interior of Cellar Dwellings, 1838

Family Living in Slum Housing, 1862

Jersey Street Slum Housing in Ancoats, 1900

Labourers Dwellings, Frontage of Victoria Square Tenements in Ancoats, 1896

Visiting Slum Houses in Ancoats, 1893

Church Visit to Ancoats Slum Housing, 1893

Workers Housing in Chorlton-Upon-Medlock

Chester Street Dwellings, 1900

Pollard Street Dwellings, 1898

Back of Workers Dwellings in Ancoats, 1899

School & WorkSchool & Work

Children of St Josephs School, 1895

Children in Classroom, 1878

Police Protection of School Children, 1890

Boys & Masters at Chethams School, 1892

Chethams School Band, 1892

Laundry Girls, 1895

Misses Hodgkinson & Taylor’s School, Hulme, 1888

Ardwick Higher Grade Municipal School, 1900

Ardwick Green Industrial School, 1850

The census has been held by the government every ten years since 1841. It is a snapshot of the country which aims to include information of every household. This is a transcription of the 1851 Census Return for Jordan Street, Deansgate.

What type of work did the head of the household do? Did the wives go out to work? Did the children go out to work? How old is the

youngest worker? ('Scholar' means that the child was at school)

Who other than the Brown family lived in the house at 3 Jordan Street?

Why do you think they had lodgers living with them? What do you think life was like in the cellar at 3

Jordan Street?

Child Workers in a Cotton Mill

Mill Girls Working in Cotton Mill, 1851

Boy working in Cotton Mill, 1840

Girl working in Cotton Mill, 1840

Play & Daily LifePlay & Daily Life

Watching a football match in Fallowfield, 1893

Elephant at Belle Vue Circus, 1880

Group of Cyclists with Penny Farthings, 1880

A Manchester Bus Today…

..and a Horse Drawn Manchester Bus in 1895.

Child’s Toy Pram, 1880

Manchester’s Central Train Station, 1885

Girl with Toy Doll, 1886

Lower Mosley Street Amateur Football Club, 1888

Young Girls Dancing Round the May Pole for May Day, 1900

Lower Mosley Street Sunday School, 1888

Children watching a Brass Band Play, 1862

Market Street TodayMarket Street Today

Film of Manchester street Film of Manchester street scene from 1901scene from 1901