Life in a Workhouse
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Cedar doing the laundry
This week we have been learning about life in the workhouse. We learnt that children were served porridge for breakfast and then they had to do lots of chores such as the laundry and beating carpets. Here are children from Cedar learning what life would’ve been like in the Victorian workhouse.