Learning & Access

Education Packs
Artefact Loan Box
Education materials
Resources for the Visually Impaired

Kington museum welcomes visitors of all ages and has been developing educational packs to assist local schools to use local heritage resources to teach about a variety of subjects. We also have a Talking Tactile Tablet and a series of multi-sensory booklets to assist visually impaired users access information about our collections.

 

Education Packs

We have a set of four education packs based on the curriculum subject of Citizenship and Diversity aims at a variety of Key Stages and these can be downloaded as PDFs (available below).  Using examples from Kington’s past and information about modern issues, the packs consider the topics of ‘Evacuees’ ‘Global Connections’ ‘Racism’ and ‘Refugees’.

Click here for the Evacuees PDF download

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click here for the Polish PDF download

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Click here for the Global Connections PDF download

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here for Racism PDF download

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artefact Loan Box

We also have an artefact loan box which you can borrow which contains objects associated with wartime Kington and the immediate post-war years that compliments the education packs or can be borrowed simply to introduce students to artefacts and promote discussion. 

The box includes:

General:

• Album of Home Front and Public Information posters and leaflets
• Ration book facsimile
• National Identity Card facsimile
• Army mess tins (x2)
• Army water bottle
• Army satchel
• CD containing audio clips and images presented in Powerpoint of the experiences of Kington people in wartime and those who were brought here both nationally and internationally.
• 2WW reproduction medals and buttons.
• British army jacket 

American troops (stationed in Herefordshire in WW2, and at the two US Hospitals at Kington Camp)

• Purple Heart medal (given to all US soldiers wounded through combat)
• US Army jacket
• American Army shoulder patches, including those of the ‘buffalo soldiers’ (the only African American combat division)
• Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942, an extraordinary and often humerous document which presents a ‘snapshot of wartime Britain, as seen by a sympathetic outside’ and is ‘an unusually direct view of how the British were seen by others’.
• American 1940s sweet wrappers (similar are remembered by many Kington residents who were children when the Americans were at the Hergest hospitals)
• ‘Americans in Kington’ Album: including photos of Kington Camp, Eardisley fuel depot, GIs in Herefordshire etc.

Polish Resettlement Corps (resident at Kington Camp in 1946-47)

• Shoulder patches and badges of the Polish armed forces.
• 1940s Polish/English dictionary
• Polish flag.

Evacuees and Children in War

• Luggage label (tied to evacuees to identify them).
• vintage train ticket (evacuees arrived in Kington by train).
• Toy car
• Children’s game
• Evacuees suit case (1940s children’s small brown suit case)

 

Resources for the Visually Impaired

We have a Talking Tactile Tablet in the Kington Camp exhibition which assists the visually impaired to learn more about this site. The Tablet uses textured overlays which, when pressed, access audio material – some of which is narrated and some of which are the voices of those who remember working, visiting or being treated at Kington Camp.  Please just ask for the TTT at the front desk as you enter the museum.

We also have a multi-sensory booklet which can be used to explore the Kington Camp exhibition.