The primary 7 pupils attended a Victorian Christmas Day in Castleward. Well done everyone on the great effort made in dressing up.
Although I already knew that back in the Victorian times if you found an orange in your stocking on Christmas day, it would put a great big smile on the children’s faces. This would be like us being told that we were only allowed chocolate once a year.
I have learnt some new facts from our trip to Castleward. I learnt that if people got salt in their stockings it would give them some good luck. It was also used if people moved into a new house they would use it to give flavour.
I also learnt that men in the Victorian times used to have to stand by a Christmas tree and watch it because they used to put candles on the tree and they were very dangerous. So the man had to stand there and weren’t allowed to fall asleep.
Another fact I learnt was when the Victorians were alive paper did not cost as much as it does today, so when they were writing they made sure they used every bit of space on the paper.
However, the most interesting fact I learnt was in 1853 the first of the Christmas cards were invented and because they were first out they were painted a cost a shilling, back then a shilling was a lot of money.
By Natasha Jenkinson P7
