By Various Schoolchildren

Location: Village in the Broads

Project Title: Children’s accounts of special and favourite place in Rural East Anglia

Project Description: Children provide a combination of image and text to illustrate places which have particular meaning for them.

Collector: Drs Elsa Lee & Richard Irvine with teachers’ support

Collection Date: September 2014 to January 2015

Collection Details: Either in classroom discussions or as take home activities

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My special place is my favourite hotel's pool in Cannes. It's my special place because the pool cools me down. Hand drawn (in colour) picture of girl in pool on lilo with two boys.

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My special place is San Pedro is Spain because it is giant and hot and the food is nice. I like to play football wih the Spanish boys and girls in San Pedro square. Hand drawn picture (in colour) of a building around a square with 4 children (boys and girls) and a football. Steps lead up on either side of the image.

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I like to stay in my house and my mummy is nice. Hand drawn picture (in pen) of 2 children and parent in house (windows and a table (?) included in drawing

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'What a View' Photograph of Tower Bridge over Thames. Simply annotated with 'what a view' as above.

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My special place is Cayne Meadow in Wroxham. I love it here as I caught my first fish here and lots of other cool things including sledging, football, riding my bike really fast down the steep hill, swimming, frisbee and cricket. I have lots of really good memories here. I have even canoed that part of the broads and had a picnic on the beach there. Photograph montage of 4 separate images, 3 of which include his father and all of which include him doing something active like playing football, fishing, splashing in the water and sledging in the snow.

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This is our garden in the snow. I love playing in the garden when its snowed and making snowmen and igloos with my family. If the world got warmer and it never snowed it wouldn't be quite so fun. Photograph of garden in the snow showing a tree and a gate and a good 2 inches of snow on top of what is probably grass and a path.

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I like being at home because I can play with my toys like Lego. When I get stuck Teela helps me. Hand drawn picture in colour of exterior of a house with 4 windows and a door.

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St Benets Abbey. I like the countryside and the bumpy road going down to St. Benets Abbey. Hand drawn picture in colour of abbey with bricks, a blue sky, some grass, trees and earth.

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My favourite spot is games because you can buy and play games and I go there all the time. Hand draw picture in pencil of shop front with GAME across the top and a couple of titles of games (Advanced Warfare, Destiny, Far Cry 4)

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My favourite place is my bedroom because I love toys. Photograph of boy's room with toys very neatly arranged acording to type acorss his shelves by his bed.

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My special place is my favourite hotel's pool in Cannes. It's my special place because the pool cools me down.

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Disneyland Paris is my farourite place. It is magical and makes me feel warm and fluffy. Photograph of her and her brother in front of a disneyland castle.

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My special place is my gymnastics club! I like this place because gym is my life I have done it since I was 5 and I never want to stop My picture of my gym. Hand drawn picture in colour of 3 children doing various different activities in the gymnastics club. All have happy expressions. There is a clock on the wall (7 o' clock) and the outfits have been carefully drawn to show wear standard

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My special place is my aunty's castle in France. It has lots of rooms that people are allowed to stay in. Photograph - 2 images of the castle in the sunshine, one with a swimming pool and one of the castle entrance with steps leading up.

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My 1 special place is where I was born. I was born in the New Norfolk and Norwich hospital.

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My favourite place is Hong Kong because of all of the fancy light on the towers and ferries when the light show is on at night. It also is special because my Auntie J. used to live there. Photograph - 2 images of Hong Kong at night with light show.

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This is my favourite place because the smell is lovely and its fun sinking down on the air bed. Photograph of a tent on the grass with a hedge behind and with air beds that can be seen through the open tent door.

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My garden is big with a river running through it. I love being outside and playing in my garden. Photograph of young boy in the grass with a house in the background. The boy is playing with some autumn leaves and looks happy.

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'Just landed after a fun flight on a plane, to Sun, Beach, Friends, and Fun. Alicante is the best place to start my holiday'. Photograph of the airport and an aeroplane on the runway in the sun.

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MY special place is my dad's garden, because in summer we always play football and when my cousin comes round we move everything so it's bigger and there's more room to play. hand drawn picture in colour of garden with swing, a table and chairs and 3 boys playing football saying YEs! and Yay! in speech bubbles.

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My Special place is home because home is where the heart is and I like it a because I love sitting down like a couch potato in one of those Hand drawn picture in pen and pencil of a house with 4 windows and door and a chimney with smoke and a couch with a stick figure on it.

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Harry Boulter’s favourite place is his shed where he keeps all his tools and his wood. This is where he builds and creates his experiments. (written out by teacher) Photographs of a wooden garden shed with a box of tools outside.

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My special place: Salhouse Broads. I chose Salhouse Broad because I have had some awesome times there. We have arrived by river on our boat and camped there with my friends. On sunny days we go there and swim in the broad.

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This tree is my special place, it is in the church driveway. I love to climb it, it is one of my favourite trees. A hand drawn picture in pencil of a tree in winter dress with other trees in the background and a cloudy sky.

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This tree is my special place, it is in the church driveway. I love to climb it, it is one of my favourite trees. A hand drawn picture in pencil of a tree in winter dress with other trees in the background and a cloudy sky.

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Photograph of girl at a local festival.

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My Special Place – St Benet’s Abbey.

I like going there for walks with my mum and brothers.

Photograph of the Abbey from a distance with a blue sky and grass and a path in the foreground.

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Photograph of 3 friends at the local playground.

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My favourite place is Spain because I saw dolphins. Photograph of pool with dolphins jumping in and out of the water with holiday buildings in the background and a mountain.

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I like Bewilderwood because it is fun.

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Photograph of giraffes at Longleat

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Photograph of holiday mock village.