Life in Mount's Bay in the reign of Queen Victoria

Penlee House has developed a new workshop for Keystage 2 children. This brings together many different learning activities into a Extended Learning Package. The workshop is based around two families who lived in this area in 1891. The Branwells, a wealthy family who built and lived at Penlee House, now the gallery and museum and a fishing family, the Kitchens and two elderly women who also lived in Newlyn, Blanche Courtney and Elizabeth Lanyon.

The workshop allows children to compare and contrast two different standards of living using costume, objects, paintings and photographs. Maps will be available to illustrate how the area has changed. Trade directories and other documents from the period will be used giving children an opportunity to learn across a number of different media.

For further information or to be added to our mailing list for workshops please contact info@penleehouse.org.uk

This project has been made possible through funding from the Museums Libraries and Archives Council with Hub funding through the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro.

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