Our first school trip to London

Seeing school is out I thought I'd write an account of a junior school trip

One thing I do remember is the J2 school trip to London.

We started off with our teachers and the excellent headmaster, Mr. Smith and some parent helpers on the chartered coach where we all were put into pairs and the first tellings off would start for such breach of school rules as having ring pull cans of pop.

It wasn't always our fault: Your folks would put in your bag for you oblivious of School Rules.

We'd arrive getting off to the sound of "Sir, Keith's bag is dripping, sir" as he'd put fizzy pop in a container the pressure of which had blown the plastic lid off, putting our hands over mouths as mercilessly we laughed at his predicament. Thankfully his sandwiches were triple wrapped so he still had something to eat.

Eventually  we'd be frog marched to the underground (aka The Tube) subway to make our to the Tower of London going on a guided tour having been head counted to ensure nobody got lost.

The Underground is super busy even outside the rush hour.

We saw the Beefeaters, making up spontaneous corny jokes about them and the 'bloody tower' with Traitors Gate enjoying hearing about how they killed. We weren't screamish.

We went into the Science Museum first having been given an hour and three quarters to look around while the staff and helpers went in the café there. 

Perhaps we'd driven them crazy?

I went to look at the exhibits about radio and photography while one group went to look at the exhibits about time and ironically we lost one boy, the one in that group WITH a watch as he was so absorbed with time he'd both not realized it was time to go AND he's not noticed his group had left him!

He got a flea in his ear for that! I'm afraid we didn't have much sympathy for him as we could of lost time to go other places.

We found a spot to have our sandwiches in the sun.

We went to visit the Natural History museum  meeting Dippy our favourite Dinosaur as we were fascinated by them although I did look at the Big Cats and Birds before going to Rene's Cafe where we'd a pre-booked fish and chip tea to eat as our Headmaster looked on shaking his head to the helpers at the number of us who didn't know how to eat with a knife and fork.

After then we walked passing Soho that was seen by us as 'dodgy' and today I'd call seedy at the time back to the coach for trip home here in the Midlands.