Bridle Path and Ferrymead

By Anonymous -
Last Friday our hub and some parents went to Lyttelton to walk the Bridle Path as well as Ferrymead to experience what it was like back in the 1950s.
  • What were the differences and similarities of the time you experienced at Ferrymead to now? What I noticed is that the differences were there was less technology so most things were made by hand and it was harder to make food. The children had lots more jobs and chores to do before and after school. The clothing they wore was long, itchy and thin. At school they had very strict rules and if you broke them the teachers would gave you the strap! They had no computers but they had paper and pencils. 
  • From your experiences what do you think life was like at home in the era of your event? It was hard because not many people had that much money to pay for school, food, water, a house and many more things and only the rich could afford a TV and other technology expenses. 
  • How do you think the early settlers felt climbing the bridle path with all of their belongings? I think it would have been really hard mostly because of the shoes and the clothing that they actually wore up the Bridle path it was hard enough for me to just carry up my bag and they would have had lots more things. 
  • Find someone who was in the other group at Ferrymead and compare what it was like in the era they experienced to what you experienced. There was not much this similarities. I noticed that kids still liked to play games, like hide and seek, people still made food by hand, and kids still have to jobs and chores.
  • Highlights from the trip? For me it was making the scones and leaning how hard it would have been for the people back in 1950. 
  • How has this experience changed your understanding of your recount era? I did really understand how hard it really was to travel around from place to place and how hard it was for kids back in the 1950s, their learning was harder and more strict because if they made a mistake they would most likely get the strap!! 
What do you think it was like in the 1950's?

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