The Nursery

Rich Victorian children had a night nursery with beds, and a day nursery for playing and taking lessons with a governess or tutor. There is just a day nursery to see at Aston Hall with the sort of toys children played with in Victorian times when there was no television or computer games.

This embroidered picture hangs above the fireplace in the Nursery. It was sewn by Sarah Moore Evans when she was just 12 years old.
Children played with toy horses and carriages - small versions of those they travelled in with their Mother and Father. Children today play with toy cars - miniatures of the real ones.


Queen Victoria had one of her babies taken out to a park in the first perambulator. Later they were just called prams and nowadays pushchairs are mostly used.

This dolls' pram is made from wicker, metal and leather

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