This morning, Kate and Dean visited residents at Britten Court, where they shared the children’s souvenir plates. The plates were decorated with images and text taken from their visit to the Suffolk Archives, and the residents were thrilled to hear about basking sharks, recipes for pickled herring – and a picture of a well-known Southwold […]
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Cross-writing and Valentia Boxes
In January 1830, Mary and William Lincolne wrote to their son, also called William, who was apprenticed at the time in Witham. The letter is a fine example of ‘cross-writing’, in which the parents wrote at different angles on the page. This was common practice, as it saved paper, which was very expensive. The letter […]
A little souvenir of their trip to Suffolk Archives
Last week, the Special Delivery group of children from Roman Hill Primary school visited Suffolk Archives, and discovered a whole host of things. Many of the discoveries they made were prompted by questions from residents at Britten Court and yesterday they set about creating a record of their visit, in the style of a souvenir […]
Special Delivery to Woods Loke Primary School
What a glorious Thursday. First, we spent a happy morning with Year 6 at Woods Loke Primary School, where the children watched the Jessie’s Letter film, and then created their own, highly personalised, postcards. The work was sensational, as you will see from just a few of them featured below. Thank you so much, Woods […]
The Beech House garden party for Special Delivery
The weather was perfect, the setting was ideal – and the cupcakes and fresh fruit were delicious. Yesterday, the Special Delivery group of children from the Edgar Sewter Primary school visited residents at Beech House in Halesworth for a ‘joyful’, ‘exciting’ and ‘informative’ garden party. They took with them pictures of favourite objects they’d found […]
Fantastic afternoon at Halesworth and District Museum
A huge thank you to everyone at the Museum for making the Special Delivery visit such a delight; the children loved it and I’m still buzzing at discovering that the name of a particular king translates as ‘good with chariots’. More images to follow later, but for now here are just a few photos of […]
Goose feathers and green ink
Having studied the beautiful handwriting in the Lincolne letters, it was time for the children to find out what it might be like to write in pen and ink. Using a selection of goose, duck and pheasant feathers, Caitlin showed the group how to sharpen the end of the feather into a nib and then […]
Flowers can say so much
The children have been studying a letter from Mary Lincolne, written when she was 13 years old and away at boarding school in Beccles. Unaccustomed to the beautiful copperplate writing, the children found it difficult to read – so they used a variety of magnifying glasses to hunt out words that looked familiar. As they […]
News from Beech House
We’ve just collected the cards from Beech House, and this is what the residents had to say: – We had such a lovely afternoon, we lost track of time, so we did this [activity] as a group. We all get so excited when we see the [Archive] Box arrive and can’t wait to see what […]
What do fish play on the piano?
Scales. We have Martin to thank for that riddle, along with several others that he sent to the group at Roman Hill, in response to the postcards they sent last week. It was lovely to share back the postcards from all the residents at Britten Court taking part in Special Delivery; from questions about fishing, […]