The Black Country Living Museum gives an accurate representation of what life would be like during the late 19th Century in this area. How far do you agree with this view?

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Name: Avtaranpreet Rai                                Form: M12

Date: 13th October 2008                                 Centre Number: 20135

Coursework: Black Country Living Museum         Candidate Number: 6164                                

Black Country Living Museum

“The Black Country Living Museum gives an accurate representation of what life would be like during the late 19th Century in this area.”

How far do you agree with this view?

Introduction

The Museum has been built to represent the Black Country Museum in 1975 onwards. This building came from all over the country, from local places such as Dudley, Tipton and Wolverhampton. Which are all within an 8 mile radius from the actual Black Country Living Museum itself. They have also made some changes and updated the Museum but this was for health and safety reasons, these include fire Alarms and also internal sides. All of this technology has been pulled in for the safety of the staff and the workers but, in addition this is a huge inaccuracy because during the nineteenth century there was no sign of electrical equipment and safety objects that involved some way of electricity.

        The roads and pavements at the Living Black country museum are made out of Cobal stones; these are non-slip stones that were used in the 19th century during the time of the Black Country Museum.

        During the whole year last year the black Country Museum had        250 000 people come to visit the traditionally development of the museum and 300,000 people when during the summer this makes the Museum a popular place to visit.

        All the staff at the Black Country museum were dressed in the same way as the people during the time of the Black Country in 1800’s, 1900’s, 1920’s and the 1930’s would have dressed.

The other places within the Black Country Museum to see were:

The toll house- this was the house where people had to pay to go passed the house using that land this was simply because the owner of the Toll House owned the land around the house and charged people to pass through.

The cottages had one room downstairs was the room which was the kitchen and also were all the family use to have evening meals and spent time together and they also had one room upstairs which was the bedroom for the whole family.

The school was where students use to be taught they had to pay a small contribution to the school. 1842-1912

The bakers- where the baker would bake fresh loafs of bread everyday on shape which was called logger lope and he would work from 3am in the morning until 6pm or sometimes times on busy days until 10 pm.

Gregory’s Store- originally this store was built as a pair of houses in 1833 on Lawrence Lane, by the house of Charles Gregory, an Iron worker. His wife Mrs Gregory use to run a shop from their front room, and when their business started to expand they converted both the houses in to a double confronted shop which was downstairs and the top was a living accommodation for the whole family. During 1925 this was the time when Gregory’s store sold virtually everything that the local community needed such as soap, hats, cigars, eggs and many other things that people would use on a daily basis.

The chemist shop- the chemist shop was where free advice would be given medicine would be made and given to people that needed the medicine and also babies could be brought in to be weighed and a small charge of 1p would be what the mother would have to pay, and even vets were brought to the chemist to be checked treated and looked after.

Chain Makers house- The Chain maker’s house, used to be one of a pair originally situated alongside Gregory’s Stores in Lawrence Lane, Old Hill.

It was the first house to be reconstructed at the Museum and is a typical example of late Victorian worker’s housing.

The Public house- The pub was built with two large rooms facing the street. The back room was a further addition and also the join between the two phases of construction can clearly be seen. The front of the pub was altered in the 1870s, and the wooden seating and partitions date from these alterations.

The Methodist chapel- The Methodist chapel was built as Providence Church in 1837 at Darby Hand in Netherton, Dudley.

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The tiny settlement of Darby Hand grew up in the late eighteenth century as a coal mining and nail making community at the side of the Dudley Canal.

It was affiliated to the Methodist New Connexion which broke away from the main Methodist body in 1797 and was very strong in the area.

The Mine-

The Chain maker- Since the eighteenth century chain making was a key industry within the Black Country, more importantly in the villages of Netherton, Old Hill and Cradley Heath.

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