Excellent visit to the museum at St John's House, Warwick - which is also the home of the museum for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (later The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers).
The lower floor is devoted to a history of St John's House and features a Victorian schoolroom, Victorian fashion and Victorian toys. It brought back my own early school day memories of when my class went there on a school trip, way back in the 1970s. We dressed as Victorian school children in the clothing that the museum provided and we experienced a Victorian school lesson with a very strict teacher! The walls were adorned with photographs going as far back as 1899 which showed images of children from local schools who had visited the schoolroom.
Not much acknowledgement of a Black British presence, despite the colonial involvement dating back to the 1700s. There was also a missed opportunity re. the WWI experiences of the black Caribbean father of black British boxer, Randolph Turpin.
Nevertheless the musuem is well organised, informative, well presented. You need to give yourself at least one and a half hours in the regiment museum alone.
The museum assistant, David Baynham was brilliant!
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