Victorian Experience - 27th to 29th June 2006

Kent Community Network, the Historical Model Railway Society and South East Grid for Learning are working with the Kent and East Sussex Railway to produce an educational experience of life on and around a Victorian Light Railway.
Pupils are publishing stories here and in a Victorians Online live newspaper.

Making The News - Click here to visit the live newspaper...

Victorian Examiner - Click here to download the pupils' newspaper...

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A selection of pictures showing the engine 'Austerity' in full steam, The actors in the roles of Colonel Stephens, his assistant Austen, Mary Seacole and the penny-farthing cyclist. And a guest appearance by Queen Victoria.

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Mary Seacole started her life from humble beginnings, but has been instrumental in changing the way the nursing profession works.
Mary was born in Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a soldier from Scotland, and her mother was a slave from Africa.
Mary used to help her mother treat wounded soldiers when she was younger. Mary Seacole met her father’s family for the first time when she was twelve, and stayed with them for a year, in England.
At the age of 31, Mary married Edwin Seacole, who was an Englishman, who eventually died of a disease called yellow fever. After Mary’s husband had died, Mary made and sold jams to make money, which she used to make different medicines that she eventually took to the Crimean war.
Mary Seacole helped a lot in the Crimean War, mostly by improving standards of hygiene.
During the Crimean war she saved many lives, mainly by keeping their wounds clean, and washing her hands before and after, dealing with patients wounds.
Mary came back to England a year after the end of the Crimean war. Many soldiers, who knew Mary organised a huge festival where they collected lots of money for her.
Mary became very famous, when she wrote ‘The wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole’, at age 52. Mary was so famous that she even treated Queen Victoria’s son when he became ill. Mrs Mary Seacole died in 1881.

By Heidi Long and Lydia Elstone.
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