Girls from Upper II visited the National Archives in Kew to find out more about the lives of Victorian children.

'We researched that Eliza would eat gruesome gruel, which was watery porridge every day, although on Christmas Day it was a feast with different sorts of meat'.  
By Amruni Choudhari 

'We were told about a boy called Henry Munday who stole a bag of sugar and got a punishment of 4 days hard labour and was whipped'.  
By Alex Garden 

'Before we stared Rachel showed us a few documents that were from the Victorian times, about different things such as; a school register, cenus and prison documents'.
By Arshia Jain 

'Betty Woodhead was only nine when she started working in the mills'
By Marina Hobday