Inside Poor Tudor Houses. They had to sleep on straw beds or a mattress filled with straw and had small blankets to keep them warm. Tudor homes have a very distinct personality that becomes all too apparent when you walk inside.
They worked six days a week and only had holy days and public holidays off work. Poor people had much smaller gardens and grew their own herbs and vegetables. They would only have one room where the whole family had to live and they had one box to put all their belongings in.
The poor had to work hard and struggled to survive.
Sometimes they would have wooden shutters to keep them warm. Poor people had much smaller gardens and grew their own herbs and vegetables. They would only have one room where the whole family had to live and they had one box to put all their belongings in. The walls between the wooden frames were made from wattle and daub wood strips or sticks covered with clay and the outer walls were most often whitewashed.