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Braishfield Memories: The Book - some of the contributors, some of the quotes
The involvement of Braishfield School
Braishfield Memories: The Book Launch
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The involvement of Braishfield School
Location: Hampshire
During the past three years the school children have taken part in several projects connected with the school's past and these have been linked to the exhibition mounted at the book launch.
The children produced a time line to hang over the exhibition tables showing notable milestones in the school's history. They provided modern equivalents of articles in the Victorian schoolroom (slates, books, nib pens, chalk, games, toys) for the Then and Now table of artifacts.
In the weeks preceding the book launch 15 children participated in recording extracts from the childhood memories in the book to be played at the exhibition.
For the book launch event a corner of the village hall was made into a Victorian schoolroom with wooden benches, easel and blackboard, piano and a cane for bad behaviour. Children from the Oaks and Saplings classes participated in a Victorian school day on the Friday afternoon of the book launch weekend, staying on well past 4.30pm to play with the various items from the Hampshire County Wardrobe resource box. Dressed in Victorian clothes they attended lessons given by Dorothy Ross (in leg o' mutton blouse and bombazine skirt) in arithmetic (12 times tables and sums in pounds, shillings and pence), poetry appreciation, handwriting, spelling and physical drill exercises.
The school log books from 1877 to 1976, transcribed by school volunteer, Jill Briggs, and bound in ring binders, were a source of great interest to many visitors who looked up reports of their own schooldays. Two volumes of the original school log books were borrowed from the Hampshire Record Office and were displayed under glass. Copies of plans from the County Architect detailed the changes made to the buildings since 1877. Videos of school events during the 1980s and Christmas productions and music hall from 1999 and 2000 were on view in the Committee Room. Photographs of school groups and activities for each decade of the 20th century were mounted on display screens. Albums of photographs of school events over the last 30 years were displayed and former pupils enjoyed searching for photographs of their school days.
Photographic Exhibitions
Two exhibitions were held to which around 350 people came. They enabled us to access many more photographs and make valuable contacts thus drawing more people into the project. We have collected around 700 photographs relating to the social and geographical heritage of the village which otherwise might have been lost.
The Archive
Greg Smith, Archive Photographer with the Imperial War Museum, has copied 200 of the most important photographs in large format. A positive and negative copy will be lodged with the Hampshire Record Office along with all the information we have been able to collect about them.
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