Lesson Planning

Use census information to find out about the lives of people in the growing coastal town, Blackpool in 1901.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To use an original resource (1901 census) to construct ideas about the impact of the railway on the town of Blackpool.
• To collect data about the town of Blackpool and consider what it tells us about the type if settlement it had become.

Children will:

• Understand how we know about the past.
• Use a genuine source of information to find out about an area in Blackpool in 1901.
• Use census information to answer questions about people and their lives.
• Begin to consider the impact of tourism on a coastal town.