Kent Life

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• Toys in the Past

  1 Box containing:
  Collection objects: Wooden building blocks – 1950s.
  Replica objects: Pecking chickens, pop gun, Jacob’s ladder, flick book, cup and ball.
  Teacher’s Resources: What was it like in the past? – Toys (book),

  

• Victorian Dairy

  1 box containing:
  Collection objects: pair of butter pats, ice cooled butter dish, small cream pail, milk jug.
  Replica objects: Apron and mop cap.
  Teacher's Resources: Pictures of Petts Farmhouse Dairy, a cow and milkmaid, a plain cookery book for the working classes, Victorian scrapbook, notes on how to use the objects.

  

• Victorian Parlour Room

  1 Box containing:
  Collection objects: brass candlestick holder, set of bellows, toasting fork, sewing set (thimble and reel of linen thread)
  Teachers Resources: Victorian scrapbook, Victorian singing games book, Images of Petts Farmhouse parlour room, notes on how to use the objects.

  

• Victorian Schoolroom

  2 boxes each containing:
  Collection objects: 5 ink wells, child’s boot.
  Replica objects: 5 slates, 10 ink pens, copybook, bottle of ink, school bell, good behaviour medal.
  Teacher's Resources:  Victorian school day resource pack, notes on how to use objects.

  

• Victorian Scullery

  2 boxes each containing:
  Collection objects: flat iron, trivet (flat iron stand), 2 clothes pegs.
  Replica objects: pair of washing tongs, bar of carbolic soap, washboard, apron and mop cap.
  Teacher's Resources: A time to remember – Victorian Britain, Victorian Scrapbook, notes on how to use objects.

  

• WWII

  2 Boxes each containing:
  Collection objects: gas mask in box, torch, set of picture cards, set of coins.
  replica objects: gas attack warning rattle, WW2 policeman’s helmet (child’s size)
  Teacher’s Resources:  2nd World War – home front pack, daily life in a wartime house – activity pack of photos, audiotape and worksheets, make do and mend – book on the effects of rationing, Anderson Shelter experience CD – audio of sounds from the shelter.