Here you’ll find ideas you might use to enter the Schools Writing Competition.  Scroll down for more info! Follow this page for updates, clues and info! Good luck!Â
FUN FACTS
In the 1800s children wrote letters with quill pens dipped in ink!
🙂 Did you know…
In the 1800s the first child to live at Valentines was called Sarah! Do you know anyone called Sarah? She was already a teenager when she came to live at Valentines.
By 1860 there were four children at Valentines. Sarah’s children!
🙂 Do you know…
… how you can enter the competition?
… the competition is named after a lovely lady called Cherry Hooker? Here she is at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in the Victorian Kitchen.
… hundreds of children have entered the competition in the past, by writing poems about the mansion or the park.
The 2026 competition task is to write a letter!
Write it pretending you lived long ago and visited Valentines when one of the families lived there!
Winners will be announced at a SPECIAL FAMILY HISTORY DAY at
Valentines Mansion on SUNDAY 5th JULY
🙂 Can you find out…?
… how many children have lived at Valentines while it was a family home?
… what other names (apart from George, Thomas, Elizabeth and Margaret) were popular in Victorian times for boys and girls?
… what games might you have played if you visited in Victorian days?
Find out about a Victorian Childhood at Valentines.
Travel back in time to the 1800s.
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