The Local History Loan Box comprises a number of elements, including background information, costume, photos, handling objects, stories and access to 3 maps and a timeline along with suggested activities.
1).Discover Dorking: Dorking’s Story Through Time – an introductory bookletwith Teacher Guidance Notes
2). Four colour coded popper wallets, one for each of 4 topics:
- Dorking’s Adventurer, William Mullins –the 1600s and 1700s
- Lord Ashcombe’s Teeth – 1850 to early 1900s
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, making music in the hills and halls – the 1930s to 1960s
- Dorking’s Market Town – 800 years of history
3). Costume
- William Mullins
- 4 girls’ caps
- 1 boys’ collar
- Lord Ashcombe
- 1 bowler hat and 1 pair of ladies’ long leather gloves
- 1 maid’s pinafore and 1 mobcap
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- 1 waistcoat and 1 flat cap
- 1 lady’s overall
4). Handling objects
- Leather purse with ‘old’ money
- 2 Farthings
- 2 Half Pennies
- 3 Pennies
- 3 Three Pence
- 2 Six Pence
- 1 One Shilling
- Book 3 Reader
- chamber pot
- Butler mineral water bottle
- 1 Red Cross War Badge, ‘War Organisation’
- Fire striker
- Pilgrim’s Badge
7 A4 colour photographs of each of the handling objects, with information
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