BBC Radio Surrey presenter Allison Ferns dropped by at Hampton
Cottage on the first of this year's special Craft Days for children at the Museum on 30 and 31 May.
With
microphone at the ready she interviewed Friends of the Museum Robin Christian
and Lin Hampson, together with actress Suzanne Page from Horsham who appeared
for the third year running in costume. Suzanne has twice played the role of
dressmaker Hilda Hollis, Hampton Cottage's last private resident, and last year
she appeared as a Suffragette to mark the centenary of votes for women since
1918.
Another
actress, Anna Bird from Crawley , made her
second Craft Days appearance dressed as a washerwoman and was especially popular
with children who helped her with the washing.
Allison
also interviewed Museum volunteers in the garden as they entertained the young
visitors. Listeners to Radio Surrey were treated to no less than eight minutes
of live coverage on Allison's regular chat show which starts at noon every
Monday to Thursday and lasts all afternoon. The Hampton Cottage recording on 30
May can now be heard on the BBC website some two hours and 40 minutes into the
show.
The
weather was fine on both days, the first time that the annual Craft Days had
been organised during the schools' half term break.The newly refurbished Museum
was busy but not overcrowded with 17 adults and 15 children entertained on the
Thursday and 17 adults with 26 children on the Friday.