The Quirister, March 1938 — Museum Notes
Queen Victoria, King George V and King
George VI. We have a Blackcap’s nest, a tube
of various coloured sands from Alum Bay,
and a motley collection of shells. We also
have an ostrich’s egg which is a dirty yellow
in colour; also a thrush’s nest with eggs, a fir
cone, and a moorhen’s egg. There is a tray
made from one of the guns of Nelson’s
flag-ship ‘The Victory’; the gun was broken
in the Battle of Trafalgar and has been
melted down; hence our tray. There is a
collection of bricks and stones; the stones
are mostly chips of mountains, such as
Snowdon; the bricks are an old Norman and
a Roman tile.
The Museum is coming on very well. As I
have only become curator this half, I cannot
give a summing up of how it has got on, but
I will contrive to give my thoughts. When I
first came, the Museum was kept in a series
of cardboard boxes, but thanks to a kind gift
by Matron, we now have a cupboard.
In the Museum are many interesting things,
and some are fairly rare. We have a case of
butterflies and beetles on top of the Museum.
There are Death’s Head moths, Cabbage
Whites and Tortoise-shells. We have a pair
of Belgian Sabots; these are made of one
piece of wood, carved and shaped to fit the
foot. Another exhibit is a green glass ball,
probably used as a float for fishermen’s nets.
There is an Indian’s head, carved out of a
cocoa-nut. Then we have two sawfish saws,
on which are hung three Coronation medals,
Quiristers c.1890
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