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Jeane -
Wonderful. Yes, the Victorians did everything in style, as well as all the developments in engineering and design, they took such a pride in all of their manufacturing.
And 'decorated' everything, from manhole covers to furnishings, even covers for piano legs!
Do you borrow the costumes, or make them? My grandmother was a very clever tailor's cutter and dressmaker, she was working in a making up warehouse in Oldham when Queen Victoria died, and they sewed black material for weeks on end, eventually going on strike as it was affecting their eyes! She always made our clothes and never wasted any fabric - I am a bit the same I'm afraid.
The unsanitary conditions in churchyards/churches also apparently could be related to Dover St Marys church, in which also there must have at one time been too many burials, and the atmosphere became a bit overpowering during services, I read somewhere. Then they started the Dover cemeteries.
Kath