Imaginative Story wins Museum Competition
Congratulations to the children of St John's Church of England Primary School, one of whom has won our competition with an imaginative story about the Museum's spectacular Chessington Hoard of Iron Age gold coins.
School children across the Borough were asked to write a short story about how the 'Chessington Hoard' came from Northern France over 2000 years ago and finally came to rest in Kingston Museum.
We received over one hundred entries, said Howard Benge, Museum Education Officer, and we had a difficult task deciding the winner, which told how the coins travelled from Northern France to England in various people's pockets, got lost in Chessington and were eventually found in 1998.