The School Master

[Craftysnapper]

One of many from my day out at the Black Country Living Museum.

 

[bugmeister]

That looks scarily like one of my teachers from many years ago. If you saw that smile you knew you were in trouble!

 

Well taken and processed

[ChrisLumix]

I went to the Black Country Museum several times in the 1980s (great place! it was being developed back then, but the village with its pub and chemist shop and chapel, were already there, as were the tram, the mineshaft and the canal boat). When did it acquire the "Living" moniker, and how is it more "alive" now than it was back then? I don't remember a schoolroom, but perhaps it wasn't open, or maybe it's a later addition.

[Guest]

That looks scarily like one of my teachers from many years ago. If you saw that smile you knew you were in trouble!

 

Well taken and processed

Thank you Bugmiester.

[Guest]

I went to the Black Country Museum several times in the 1980s (great place! it was being developed back then, but the village with its pub and chemist shop and chapel, were already there, as were the tram, the mineshaft and the canal boat). When did it acquire the "Living" moniker, and how is it more "alive" now than it was back then? I don't remember a schoolroom, but perhaps it wasn't open, or maybe it's a later addition.

 

Chris before yesterday the last time I went was in 1990 when I lived in Netherton, there is a lot more there now and some of the buildings have been added after being moved brick by brick from parts of the black country and rebuilt.

 

Heres a link  http://www.bclm.co.uk/

[ChrisLumix]

Chris before yesterday the last time I went was in 1990 when I lived in Netherton, there is a lot more there now and some of the buildings have been added after being moved brick by brick from parts of the black country and rebuilt.

 

Heres a link  http://www.bclm.co.uk/

 

Thanks for that Paul. It looks a lot the same, but I guess  they have a lot more special events there now, not to mention using the village street as a film lot.

[THELONGMAN]

"Come here Lad" I hear him say---- really good portrait Paul,

 

Geoff

[ChrisLumix]

"Come here Lad" I hear him say---- really good portrait Paul,

 

Geoff

 

Hahaha - you're thinking of that one out of Please Sir!, oh what was his name ... Derek Guyler?

[Guest]

"Come here Lad" I hear him say---- really good portrait Paul,

 

Geoff

 

Thanks Geoff, I think this one might more fit what you are thinking of.

 

[Cathy]

What a wonderful Portrait!

So well captured and presented.