What words can you use to describe the Winter Gardens?

Why do you think the building was designed like this?

What do you think the building was used for?

Who would go into the Winter Gardens?

What does this building tell you about life in Bournemouth?

What does the building tell you about society at the time?

Does this building still exist? Does it still look the same? Is it still used in the same way?

How can the Winter Gardens help you to compare life in the past to the present?

Where do you need to search for more information?

These questions only relate to the written postcard shown:

Find out from the sources (includeing the reverse of the New Marine Drive postacard) what the children had been doing whilst they were staying in Bournemouth.

What do you notice about the addresses that the postcards were sent to?

How reliable are postcards and letters written from children for historians studying a Victorian childhood?