THE SCHOOL MUSEUM
THE SCHOOL MUSEUM We have a small museum in our school. It is in the middle corridor and lots of visitors to the school enjoy looking at the artefacts we have in it. This page shows five things we have in the museum, but there's lots more to see if you visit us. In this photo you can see an old kettle which would be boiled on the gas stove in the 1950's. Surprisingly, it hasn't got a wooden handle, so it would have needed to be lifted with a piece of cloth. It would have been easy to burn yourself. |
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A RADIO FROM THE 1940's
This photo shows a radio from the 1940's. It is made of wood, and you can see how big it is. It is also very heavy, and would have been difficult to move around easily. The radio works with valves, which were big glass tubes. The knobs on the front are for tuning the stations and for volume. In those days, the main sources of entertainment were magazines, the cinema and the radio, known as 'the wireless'. |
 | A SEWING MACHINE
This sewing machine is from the 1950's and it it still in good working order. It was given to us by a parent of a child in the school. It is extremely heavy, and must have been very difficult to move around from one room to the other. You can see the heavy wooden base and the large metal wheel and handle at the right. Today's machines are small, much lighter, and use a lot of platic instead of metal. | ||
| A DIGITOR
Years ago, in 1982, children were very excited when we bought some digitors for school. They cost £150 pounds each, which was very expensive. The digitor is the earliest school computer, but it only gives practice in basic maths, and everything it does can easily be done today by a £4 calculator! These machines weren't popular for long, because technology moves quickly and soon the BBC Microcomputer would come to schools. For its day, the BBC Micro was a very advanced machine. It had a 32k memory! Think how tiny that is now! | ||
| A SUPER 8mm MOVIE PROJECTOR
From the 60's to the early 80's, the most popular way of making home movies was using celluloid Super 8mm film, so called because it was 8mm wide. When you'd 'shot' your reel of film, you'd send it off for processing, and the little roll of film would run on a projector like this one for 4 minutes. You could show a big, bright picture in your lounge, but you had to put a screen up and turn the lights off. Nowadays people make films on videotape using video cameras, and the latest thing is to record your movies straight onto DVD. The movies can also be edited very easily on a home computer. | ||
