The reason I was out and about so early in Mill Lane was that I and other governors were accompanying a party of Class 2 children from Emmanuel School to the wonderful Geffreye Museum in Hackney.The Museum ( a former almshouse) contains rooms from the 1600s to nearly the present day with appropiate furnishings and household objects. The rooms were all decorated especially for Christmas and we were concentrating on a Victorian Christmas . The children got to explore and understand what life was like without electricity and TV and were very puzzled by certain objects ( like laundry items when you didn't just bung it all in the washing machine!) Unfortunately our time there was cut short as we were 20 minutes late owing to the appalling traffic and diversions created by the works in Chalk Farm Road which seems never ending!
The Big Christmas tree outside the Museum - much appreciated by the children from west Hampstead - its bigger than ours on West End Green!
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