Y3 Salisbury
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Year 3 had a very exciting visit to The Weald and Downland Museum. We hope you enjoy reading our reports and seeing our photos.
A Report on The Bayleaf Farmstead
The Museum
The museum is an outdoor experience with medieval, Tudor and Victorian buildings.
Appearance
The Bayleaf is a big early Tudor house with five rooms and four beds. In the parlour there is a spinning wheel and two beds. In the dining hall there is a huge fire in the middle of the room. On the right there is a table for eating on.
Materials
The Bayleaf is made of wattle and daub, hair, animal manure, clay and chalk. Wattle is weaved wood.
Purpose
The farmer used to live in Bayleaf to own animals and make food. They grew crops on their land.
How they survived
The farmers ate their crops and ate their animals.
Interesting Facts
The beds were made of rope, straw and special plants to keep bugs away. The case was stuffed with wool. There is a bed that slides under the bigger bed.
Guy
A Report on Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
The Museum
The Weald and Downland Museum has houses and a farm. It has Tudor, Victorian and Medieval houses.
How they survived
The people that lived in the farm house ate food from their garden and the animals and grain. They sell their animals for money.
Appearance
The Bayleaf Farmstead is white with black wooden beams. Inside the main hall there is a long dining table with jugs on it. On the floor in the middle of the hall there is a grey fire place.
Parlour
In the parlour there is a chair and a bed. When they need to work they sit in the chair.
Parlour Chamber
In the parlour chamber there is a bed with a roll out bed. The mum and dad sleep in the high bed and the children sleep in the lower bed. Four children sleep in it. Two f them have their heads one side and the other two have theirs to the other end.
Servants’ Bedroom
The servants slept in the other side of the house.
James
