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Children growing up in the 1940s and 1950s had far fewer toys than children do these days and spent most of their time outdoors. With little traffic on the roads they played out on the streets of their neighbourhood. For children growing up in Haslemere, a relatively rural location, children played in woods, farmland and the local recreation grounds. Children at this time were also expected to have a hobby and joining societies such as the Girl Guides or the Scouts were part and parcel of growing up.

Track 2 Museum Exam

Credit line: Elizabeth Boniface talks about Haslemere Museum’s examinations.

Transcription:

Interviewee: We used to go to the museum a lot and round about the Easter holidays they had this wonderful exam. You went in and you got a book with ten pages of questions on each page and you went round the museum finding out all the answers and then you took the exam and you knew of course the answers and also you had to identify, I think, ten fossils and ten flowers and living things like that. Then you got a prize.

Interviewer: How did you get on in the exam then?

Interviewee: I only took one and there were all these books in one of the rooms and you chose which you wanted and then your name was put there so no one else could choose it and I got Longfellow’s poems, I think. Can’t think why I chose it. I’ve still got it somewhere.

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