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‘How interesting, how do you arrange it?’
We told her the details and she thought this most enterprising.
In fact she was so interested that she asked to come with us.
Not only did she come with us but also she took charge of two or
three of the children, and she bought her camera and was a great
help on that visit. Every now and again each group came to me
when they had completed parts of their projects and Miss
Montgomery came with her group and said, ‘we’ve done that.
What do we do next?’ All the time she was taking photographs
not only of us but also of the beautiful gardens around. She
also got some pictures of the bird life there. We had a bonus
that day, as they were doing some filming and we saw some of the
characters acting in the film which was being made for
children’s television called ‘The Devil in the Fog’. If
any of you have read it, it is a very interesting story and is
based on Ightham Mote.
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Montgomery visited the school again and
bought her slides with her so we could see what we had been
doing that day. Another visit, this time arranged by the Parent
Teacher Association, took us to Penshurst Place. There we found
a most interesting toy museum had just been opened and of course
that was a place that we had to visit. I was particularly
interested in these old toys and as we walked around we came
upon an old desk. There it stood with a blackboard, which was
all part of the desk and a sort of roller blind on top with
drawings and alphabet, which could be copied onto the
blackboard. As soon as I saw it I stopped and said, ‘Goodness
me I’ve got the twin of that at home’. It was exactly the
same as one I had when I was a child. The children who were with
me looked at the desk, looked at me, looked around at the rest
of the toys and you could read their minds – we knew she was
getting on a bit but we didn’t think she was a museum piece
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