Victorian Inventions Day!

Date: 12th Nov 2018 @ 3:51pm

Our theme this term is "Why are bridges built in different ways?"...you'd be forgiven for wondering why on earth we have had a Victorian Inventions day!

Did you know that as the Industrial Revolution took its course, the Victorians developed Britain's road and rail networks like no one ever had before? We'll be exploring some of the amazing ways they built bridges to enable goods to be transported from one part of the country to another, crossing great expanses of water. We'll especially be focusing on finding out how the Victorians built Tower Bridge, where they had to find a way to build in water so that traffic could cross the Thames yet still allow cargo ships to pass underneath. 

To lead us into this, we explored some of the other amazing inventions of the Victorian era, such as Morse Code and Steam Trains. We even had our photograph taken with a real 1836 camera lens; we had to stay VERY still so that our photo wouldn't become all blurry! See a sneak peak of Mrs Hodges trying to 'look Victorian' below!