Sharing their Stories
The children visited Beech House, eager to tell the residents about their trip to the Museum. First, however, they were treated to a viewing of the Beech House Trophy Cabinet video.
The children were surprised—and delighted—by the variety of ‘trophies’ awarded to the Beech House Bakers in Dean’s poem, and the residents were clearly very happy and pleased to be able to share the video and see themselves again on screen.
After a quick game of table-top football, in which the off-side rule was side-lined and the scoreline was off the scale, we all settled down to hear about what the children discovered during their visit to the Museum last week.
The children chatted busily about their drawings and what they’d written, whilst the residents looked on admiringly.
Before they left, each child stood up and told the whole room about just one exhibit that they particularly liked and that spoke to them of their ‘heritage’
The word cloud opposite illustrates the many and varied ways in which Halesworth and District Museum identifies, displays and celebrates the cultural and social history of the town and surrounding parishes.
The children told the residents about their favourite exhibits and showed them the colourful drawings they had made at the Museum.
The residents were fascinated by what they had discovered, and eager to hear all about it.
'I really liked the one that said Bacon because it's got snakes and owls on it. It also had the initial 'S' on it: I reckon it stands for Smoky.'
'My favourite was the Hospital Cup Medallion—it’s very small, but a big achievement.'
'Everlyn: "I found my cousin's last name - Ellis - in a display about World War II." Pauline: "The Ellises were bakers in Halesworth, it must be about 75 years ago. Their shop was up London Road and they made all sorts of bread, rolls and sponge cakes." '
'Museums are very useful. They’re important for future generations so that the past doesn’t get forgotten'
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