Creator: NationalMuseumsScotland on 19 Oct 2011, 3:40 p.m.
Jo shares her memories of sewing at school and her measuring tape which she has kept since school.
Jo shares her memories of being a working class girl in the top stream of a "posh" girls school' convent grammar school.
Photograph is of Jo in her school uniform. Poem by Diana Hendry, titled Streams.
Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 19 Oct 2011, 3:40 p.m.
Comments
Very moving, and very true.
Comment added by Erica on 31 Oct 2011, 11:06 p.m.
I still have the needle case you gave me for Christmas just after I started at the convent - and I still use it.
Cora
Comment added by porter on 1 Nov 2011, 9:38 a.m.