15-year-old pupils Andrew Miller and Richard Usher present a metal cover they made to the Vale and Downland Museum in Wantage, England. – Vintage Photograph

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Two 15-year-old pupils from Icknield School in Wantage, England, Andrew Miller and Richard Usher, presented a decorative metal cover for an ancient well discovered on the site of the Vale and Downland Museum in Church Street, Wantage. Donald Alexander, chairman of the museum trust, visited the school to receive the gift and explained that the cover was necessary to prevent someone from falling down the well during the restoration of the former doctor’s surgery into the new museum and exhibition centre.Two 15-year-old pupils from Icknield School in Wantage, England, Andrew Miller and Richard Usher, presented a decorative metal cover for an ancient well discovered on the site of the Vale and Downland Museum in Church Street, Wantage. Donald Alexander, chairman of the museum trust, visited the school to receive the gift and explained that the cover was necessary to prevent someone from falling down the well during the restoration of the former doctor’s surgery into the new museum and exhibition centre.

Dimensions: 15.6 x 22.6 cm

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A SCHOOL’S contribution to a museum project could save visitors from a fall. Andrew Miller and Richard Usher, 15-year-old pupils at Icknield School, Wantage, made 22 JUL 1982 a decorative metal cover for an ancient well discovered on the site of the new Vale and Down- land Museum in Church Street, Wantage. Andrew and Richard are pic- IN tured above with Mr Donald Alexander, chairman of the trust responsible for the museum, who went to the school to receive the unusual gift. The trust is busy transforming a former doctor’s surgery into the new museum and exhibition centre, and during the restora- tion work someone nearly fell down the well, Mr Alexander told pupils.