Children & Education

Although children must commonly have had toys in the past, examples found on excavations are not frequent- principally because the toys were often of perishable materials.

In 1747 lavish improvements were made to the headmaster’s house and committee rooms of the Free Grammar School in the High Street. They included a fine staircase, a panelled room with an elaborate doorway and a costly marble fireplace inlaid with motifs in the Adam style. These were salvaged by our museum when the buildings were demolished in the 1930s.