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Planning a Group Visit
Living History Days
Bring your class or year group to Kelham or Abbeydale for a day full of activities and adventure!
Children take on real characters and enjoy a full day of activities themed around Victorian life or
World War II.
Please ring 0114 2010613 for current dates at the relevant site.
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1851: A Day in the Life of Abbeydale Works
Site: Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Dates in: September, October, March, June and July.
Taking on the role of characters from the Victorian census, children discover work in the water-powered scythe works, crucible furnace and the counting house. They can compare life in the Manager's House to the drudgery of the worker's cottage.
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Christmas at the Workhouse
Site: Kelham Island Museum
Dates in: November and December.
As young Victorians from the 1861 census, children discover life at a Sheffield workhouse and the struggle
to keep out of it. They become workhouse inmates, labour as silverware stampers, learn from the Guardian of the Workhouse all about Victorian Christmas traditions and experience life from the back-to-backs of Cotton Mill Walk.
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1940s: Wartime Children
Site: Kelham Island Museum
Dates in: September, October, January, May, June and July.
Children travel back in time to wartime Sheffield. They will investigate the lives of real people and
encounter the trials and tribulations of air aids, evacuations and life on the Home Front. They will
experience sounds, songs, gas masks, and the Anderson Shelters.
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Children at Work, 1865
Site: Kelham Island Museum
Dates in: February
The Employment Commissioner of 1865 investigates the working conditions of children as they
labour as apprentices in a cutlery factory, grinding and buffing, making spoons and cutting files.
They are also set to work in a wealthy household and experience lessons and games with the
Mistress of a Dame School.
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The Great Sheffield Flood, 1864
Site: Kelham Island Museum
Dates in: March
Experience living and working by the river in Victorian Sheffield on that fateful day. Explore
why a dam was needed and how it burst, recreate the stories of the families living along the river
and look at home life, children’s games and entertainment of the time. A full day of drama, role
play and related activities. Horror and Heroism, Life and Death!
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Price Guide: £5.50 per child (£5.00 Sheffield LEA)
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