It’s 50 years since I visited an Elizabethan manor house with my best friend, Botty. The journey was far more exciting than the destination
ne day in 1973, holding my first best friend’s hand, we went on our first school trip. It was toin Worcestershire, an Elizabethan manor house with lots of hidey-holes. These were the work of Humphrey Pakington, the recusant owner who built them 400 years earlier, and much appreciated by a number of terrified Catholics back then, as well as armies of thrilled and bewildered schoolchildren ever since.
School trips are under threat. Is it just me, or are good things always under threat while bad things are forever on the rise? But whatever it takes, school trips must for ever be taken. An executive from English Heritage warned that the charity is struggling to carry on, adding: “Learning about the Battle of Hastings in a classroom can never offer the same depth of understanding as visiting the actual battlefield, seeing the landscape and even recreating the fight.
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