We visited Tredegar House last week to investigate the lives of rich and poor Victorians. We had to do some of the chores that the butlers, cooks, pastry maids and footmen did. We found out how much servants got paid - the head butler was paid the most, £60 a year. We then had an insight into the life of rich Victorians, Godfrey Morgan was a kind employer who in his earlier life fought in the Crimean War. He was one of the 200 survivors of the Charge Of The Light Brigade, he said that he owes his life to his trusty horse Sir Briggs - he can be seen on his horse if you scroll through the photographs. Tredegar House was the ancestral home of the Morgan Family, later lords Tredegar, for over 500 years. To give you an idea of their importance, at the end of the 18th century the Morgans owned over 40,000 acres in Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorgan.
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