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Q. What about exercise books – did they
have their own?
A. Yes, they all had exercise books when I went.
Q. They would have the old dip pens?
A. Yes. Dip pens and holes in the desks for the ink wells.
Q. Were they long desks?
A. Yes.
Q. They were changed while you were there?
A. Yes they were. It was very awkward about the heights.
Nowadays you can get the desks, or tables rather, the right
height for your children, then the poor little children had to
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them. And an extra big child found the
seats too small for them and they would have to sit cross wise.
These were all things that had to be contended with. As to the
type of children I don’t think these ever varied. Purely
agricultural and a poor Parish.
Q. Did you have much trouble when the evacuated children came
down from London?
A. We had quite a number.
Q. What about the type of people in the village?
A. We had rather a backward class of people in Ash, because it
had always been a fruit-picking village and people have come
from the slums of London and Rochester and Chatham and
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