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This week’s Gallery over at Tara Cain’s blog ‘Sticky Fingers’ should have been easy for me having been a teacher. It is ‘Education’ but for some reasons I found it really difficult. I suppose that is often the case when it is your ‘work’. Anyway, I trawled through the albums (well no I flicked through the digital pictures!) & found these beauties.
If anything says ‘EDUCATION’ it has to be a Victorian classroom! Just look at the equipment! Who needs technology & gadgets. Everyone has their own seat & writing slate. The abacus is there to help with arithmetic & of course should you step out of line, the cane will remind you of your manners!
The next one brings the past to the present for me. Even back in those days attendance was crucial! Rather than a little certificate, the class got real recognition!
The pictures were taken at Shugborough Hall Home of the Litchfield family (as in Lord Litchfield royal photographer!) The National Trust owns part of the estate & it is well worth a visit with the children as there is plenty for everyone to see & enjoy!
Now pop over to Tara’s & get more educated!
So no smartboards there then…
It’s fascinating to see how different school used to be 🙂
I remember seeing a classroom like this at Beamish Museum near Durham. Fascinating stuff x
Oh how fab! Took me home…Shugborough is 2 or 3 miles away from the house I grew up in!
Love it! We visited a Victorian school on a school trip and I adored it! I’m adding this to my list of places to visit!
Love these photos- esp the banner! You reminded me of a ‘Victorian Day’ we had at my primary school – MAAAANY moons ago! We had to dress up and our teachers were uber bossy. Ahh memories x
I love the classroom.
Shugborough hall – just down the road from me 🙂
That Victorian classroom is amazing.
I’d put a ban on Him Up North if I were you 😉
Really, really like these desks. I dreamt of having an old fashion school desk when I was a child. I’m typing on one right now. I picked it up for a song (iTune song though, not quite free) in a back street in Ankara.
(By the way, this is me from Paris-Ankara Express, but I have a new blog too which I’m linking to today).
Ooh, he’s a cheeky one, is that HUN!
Nice shot, Julia.
Wow, I love seeing things like this
Would make a brilliant museum. You could charge entry fee and everything! 🙂
I seem to remember seeing something similar at a deserted village in Dorset, used for war training it’s still in a military zone but open to the public at certain times…
I do love the Victoria class room but I remember a couple of black board like that when I was child, aside from wall mounted black board (shows age)
Very cool!
That classroom shot was taken on your first day as a teacher? *runs away* 😉
How fab I always wanted to go to this type of place as a child but never got to go, hoping sons will now go and they need parent helpers
Ooooh great photo! LOVE the Victorian classroom – looks fabulousl!