Victorian play

Daytrips were a rare thing for us not least for not having a school minibus compared with today  but we did go out to find out about such things as the Victorians and what being a Victorian Child might of been about.
Shockingly we learnt many Victorian children didn't have a childhood as we understood it, with schooling with them as soon as they were able being expected to enter the World of Work often doing dangerous things like looking after Coal Mines and Mills doint the things the grown ups couldn't do with no say in the matter.
Sometimes we'd have a playtime during such trips in a nearby park or something and when it came to the Victorians we were introduced to the games they played playing as if we we were those children and I'd go and play with the girls games like this.
I think it's where I get the idea of wanting to go back in time from cos I just feel it.