A Zeppelin Over Yarwell

 Just as we had finished laying out and displaying all the photographs and artefacts I had a phone call from an old man called John Lock who was born in Nassington and went to school in the village. He told me that he had some interesting medals and drawings that were done by his father during  WWI. They are mostly pen and ink humorous  drawings, but of a high standard.

It would seem that John Lock's  father Arnold Victor Lock emigrated to Canada in 1910. At the onset of WWI he enlisted into the army and became a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Canadian Forces.

He was working on railway construction at the front when the sidecar of the motor bike in which he was riding hit a pocket of gas and damaged his eyes. He was eventually discharged and returned to England to live in Nassington.

Currently all the drawings are in plastic folders but I am going to purchase some Miramex ones, so that the drawings do not incur further damage. We will not be displaying the originals but be taking photographs of them for display. I hope to meet John again as he was full of very interesting information about the village.

A Zeppelin Over Yarwell

We have put up a lot of stories about building the

Zeppelin but we also worked with Nassington  Primary school on our WWI project.

They have been looking at old school records to find out what happened in the school during WWI.
They found that the punishment book was the most exciting because they learnt which soldiers were naughty at school. They discovered that a punishment could be up to six whacks on the hand with a cane. They were surprised to learn that the Northamptonshire Regiment came to assembly and showed the children a bomb! The children did not think that a bomb would be allowed in school today.

     The children also wrote and designed a leaflet using information that they had          gained from the school log books. We have distributed the leaflets around          the area.              

Some of the children learnt to knit mittens, just as the children did during WWI, when a large number of mittens were sent out to the troops.