ACTIVITY TRAIL FROM STREET TO TRENCH EXHIBITION

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1 ACTIVITY TRAIL FROM STREET TO TRENCH EXHIBITION Welcome to IWM North! Use this activity sheet as you walk around the exhibition From Street to Trench to help you discover more information about the First World War. Good luck! Contents: Joining up page 2 Life on the home front pages 3-4 Life in the trenches and global war pages 5-6 Remembrance page 7 Key Stage 2 1

2 Joining up Walk towards the big screen. Can you find these two posters on the wall to your right? These posters were used to encourage men to join the Army. Look at the pictures and words and imagine they are asking YOU to join the Army. 1. Which poster might make you think about joining up? Circle it. 2. What made you choose that poster? Men in the North West often joined up to Pals Battalions. This meant they would fight with their friends, family, workmates and other people from their town. 3. Can you think why they might have liked to join up with their friends? Look at the poster next to Is Your Home Here? Defend It! on the right. It is called Women of Britain Say Go. Posters were also used to encourage mothers, wives and girlfriends to urge their men to do their bit. 4. How do you think this poster might make a mother feel? Circle the answer below that best describes this feeling ANGRY GUILTY PROUD SAD Key Stage 2 2

3 Life on the home front Work Hard With men going off to war, women took on new, important jobs for the war effort. Walk onto the street and go through the first door on the right. Look at the wall on your right. It has a cabinet and artwork showing work done by women in the First World War. 5. Can you name three different jobs done by women? And Save Money for Britain Britons were told not to waste their money on luxuries. This meant that important resources such as food and fuel could be saved. Factories could also focus on making things needed for the war, such as weapons, rather than things people could manage without. Look at the posters on the next wall. 6. Name two things that people were told NOT to do: Did you know Even children s toys and games were affected by the war? Look in the cabinet on the left. Can you find two different games? 7. Why do you think children played games about war? Key Stage 2 3

4 New! What happened in Britain for the very first time during the First World War? Go back onto the street and go in the next door on the right. Can you find this painting, The Food Queue by C R W Nevinson? Food was in short supply. In order to share it out equally, rationing was introduced for the first time in Look in the cabinet to the left of this painting. Can you find the nose cone of the German Zeppelin Airship L21? 8. What happened in Bolton on September 1916? A R _ Britain had not been attacked in this way before. Look in the case to find this photograph of damage to people s homes. 9. How would you feel if this happened to your street? Bolton Council from the Bolton Library and Museum Services collection Go back to the street and look at the clothes next to the big Oxo poster. Can you find the uniforms for the munitions worker, nurse and soldier? 10. Try the uniforms on and imagine how you would have felt if wearing this uniform to help your country. Strike a pose that matches this feeling! Now walk around the corner. Can you find a wall (on your right) with lots of photographs of women working in factories? 11. Women did not work in factories making weapons before the First World War. Can you find the film screen on this wall? Watch women at work in Key Stage 2 4

5 Life in the trenches Serving in the trenches could be very difficult. Albert Tattersall wrote to his parents: The trenches are in a rotten condition with water and mud, but I am not grumbling because war is hard at any time. Walk to the end of the street, around the corner and then carry on until you are beneath the Sopwith Camel plane and can see the flamethrower on your left. Look in the large glass cabinet next to the flamethrower. Can you find this steel helmet? It belonged to John Howard of the Lancashire Fusiliers. Please read the label to help you with the next question. 12. The helmet was made this shape to protect the soldier s head from what? Now turn around and find the entrance to the tunnel opposite you. Tunnels were dug deep underground by both sides to attack enemy trenches from below. Crawl in! Keep very quiet and listen carefully to the sounds before you crawl to the end. 13. What different noises can you hear? Now look at the glass cabinet above the tunnel exit. Can you find this object? 14. When did Wilfred Walton need to use this whistle? Key Stage 2 5

6 Look in the next case on the right. 15. This belonged to Albert Tattersall. What is it? Global War Not all soldiers from the North West served on the Western Front in France and Belgium. Look to your right. Can you see a glass cabinet containing this haversack? Have a look in this cabinet and the one next to it containing a flag. Can you find these three objects belonging to soldiers and sailors who travelled across the world to discover where they served? 16. Draw a line from each object to the country where its owner served. Where did Captain George Sutton use this haversack? Where were the battles in which Jack Finnigan fought with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment? Where did sailor Teddy Ashton find the tree bark to make this bookmark? Russian Lapland Egypt and Gallipoli, Turkey Mesopotamia (now Iraq) Key Stage 2 6

7 Remembrance At the end of the war, families and local communities had to find ways to cope with their losses and remember those who had died. At the end of the war, the villages whose soldiers had all returned home safely were called Thankful Villages. Walk on past the tunnel and keep going until you reach a large plaque in the walkway. Turn right can you find the motorcycle that was used to travel to these Thankful Villages in 2013? 17. How many Thankful Villages were there in Lancashire? Now go to the large plaque in the walkway. It is dedicated to 20 members of the Lake District Fell and Rock Climbing Club who died while serving in the war. The club also bought a large area of land in the Lake District and gave it to the National Trust. This means that everyone can walk there and enjoy the scenery. 18. Why do you think the club members chose this way to remember their friends? Discuss in your groups. 19. Using a pencil, use the rest of this page to write down or take a rubbing of the first four lines of this plaque. Key Stage 2 7