Reading was a popular activity as well as dancing. Dancces may have been held in dance halls around the towns. Other popular leisure activities were things such as sporting events, and live theatres, these activities were very popular for the working class. A wealthier families form of entertainment would be the piano, or listening to music through the Edison phonograph. The middle class families popular leisure activity would be a picnic, in the decade before war, surfing was also very popular. Life for the working class wasn’t the best, they worked long hours and even then they still wouldn’t have the funds or time for lesure activities. The middle and upper classes on the other hand were more wealthy, and they had more time and money for leisure activities.

The fountain The Botanical Gardens Sydney

In this picture there seems to be a family at the Botanical Gardens, which i am guessing is there family outting. I can see what looks to be a mother and her children, the mother is wearing a long dress and a broad brim hat, the kids i think are also wearing their ‘good clothes’ as they are on a family outting. They are wearing broad brim hats and the girls dresses, and the boys long sleeve shirts and knee length 

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