Loan Boxes: Key Stages 1 and 2

The boxes contain fascinating objects, both real and replica, which will really help to bring the past back to life and give pupils hands on experience of using objects to investigate the past. There is a teacher’s pack in each box with notes to help you get the best out of the objects.

Loan Boxes can be hired for half a term at a time. Each box costs £35 per half term for schools within Epping Forest District or the Borough of Broxbourne and £45  per half term for schools outside these areas.  The boxes will be delivered to and collected from your school by the Education Officer.  Please note the boxes are only available to schools within a 20 mile radius of the museum.

To book email chammond@eppingforestdc.gov.uk or phone 01992 716882

Key Stage 1

Homes in the Past
A range of objects from the last 100 years showing how kitchen and other home gadgets have developed.  This box will aid a very practical understanding of what it was like to live in a house a long time ago, by enabling pupils to try working with different objects to carry out a range of household tasks the hard way!
Contains both original and replica items.

Toys in the Past 
A selection of replica and original toys from the last 100 years, perfect for trying out to experience just how children played in the past.  There is also a selection of historical photographs and drawings showing Victorian children at play, and oral history recordings from the early 20th century of memories of toys and games played by children in the district.
Contains both original and replica items.

Key Stage 2

Ancient Egyptians
Includes objects connected with the fascinating subject of mummification, and those connected with daily life such as jewellery, cooking pots and hair curlers.
Please note: owing to the nature of this topic, all the objects in the box are replicas.

Ancient Greece
Includes replica clothes, masks and statues to help you explore the lives and beliefs of the Ancient Greeks.
Please note, owing to the nature of this topic, all the objects in the box are replicas.

Romans
Costumes, jewellery, pots, oil lamps, key rings and more, including some real fragments of Roman pottery found in the District!

Contains both original and replica items.

Anglo Saxons
Replica clothes, jewellery, helmets, bone combs, coins, spindles and lots more help you find out for yourself what it was like to live and work as an Anglo Saxon.
Please note, owing to the nature of this topic, all the objects in the box are replicas.

 
Vikings
From a warrior’s helmet to a set of rune stones, find out what life for a Viking was like – do they deserve their fierce reputation?
Please note, owing to the nature of this topic, all the objects in the box are replicas.

 

Tudors
Explore life in a typical Tudor home and find out how they ate, drank, told the time and dressed themselves.
Contains both original and replica items

 

Victorians
Find out how Victorians kept their beds warm, entertained themselves and even curled their hair with the original, unusual objects in this box.
Contains both original and replica items

 

Britain since 1930
A range of objects from mincers to computer chips, illustrating the way life in this country has changed since the 1930s.
All original objects

 

Schools in the Past
All you need to recreate a Victorian school room, from pince-nez glasses and a cane for the teacher, to copy books, slates and a backboard for the children!
Contains both original and replica items

 
World War Two
Recreate the Home Front in the classroom with I.D and ration cards, parts of ARP uniforms and even a bit of a bomb!
All original objects