This coronavirus crisis has found me running online lessons in Victorian history for a couple of nine year olds. We’re using Skype to have a one-hour session each week and we’re finding it fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naturally we started with Queen Victoria herself who ruled Britain from 1837 to 1901, a record 37 years – until the current Queen Elizabeth II beat the record in 2015. And, of course, there was Victoria’s husband Prince Albert with whom she had no less than nine children before he died at the early age of 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I told my young students about some of the many places named after Victoria or Albert or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here, in London, we have Victoria railway station, bus station and coach station and, on the underground, we have both Victoria station and the Victoria line. Even the pub in the television series “Eastenders” is the Queen Victoria or Queen Vic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still in London, Albert has a huge music hall named after him and opposite the Albert Hall is a grand statue of the prince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staying in central London, north and south of the River Thames we have respectively the Victoria Embankment and the Albert Embankment. Then there is the wonderful Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m originally from Manchester and the town hall there is located in Albert Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I know that this naming practice is not confined to London or Manchester. I once visited Regina, a provincial capital in Canada, and found that at the centre of the city there was the intersection of Victoria Avenue and Albert Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m sure that my little friends would be interested in any further examples that you can offer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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