GARRETT TRAIL
This resource is part of the Leiston History Trail
in the "DON'T STOP THE TALLY" Education Pack.
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"I came over from Copenhagen to work for Garretts as they liked to employ at least one Continental designer in the drawing office. Whilst at Garretts I invented a single eccentric reversing gear which was used by the firm on portable engines. I stayed until Easter 1884 and would have known some of the people on the 1881 Census and the area referred to below as it was then; in the 1880's." Ernest Boutard |
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The following trail includes instructions for pupils to follow if they are completing the trail at the Museum but it can also be used in the classroom with the hyperlinked photographs. This page has been designed to be printed off as a paper resource or worked through on-line. The pupils' task is to look for historic clues and to draw conclusions about how the small town of Leiston has developed and been influenced by the Garrett family. |
Leave the Museum by the main gate and turn right. Do not cross the road!
| 1. What colour are the bricks? |
| 2. This house was built in 1828. How have the bricks weathered? What does this tell you about the quality of the house? |
| 3. What might it have been used for? |
| 4. What is it used for how? |
Continue walking along the pavement and onto the grassed area to your
right.
Look across the road to Barclays Bank. Do not
cross the road!
5. Col. Frank Garrett (1869 - 1952) lived in this house for 10 years.
Quickly sketch how you think the house might have looked in 1870. Look
at how much it has changed since the early 20th Century?
On the left hand side of Barclays Bank is Dinsdale Road (formerly Foundry Lane). Numbers 6 - 10 are a terrace of cottages made of red brick with flint facing, which were built, before 1840, by Richard Garrett III to house employees from the Leiston Works.
Stay on the grass and walk up the slope and look at the long red brick building which used to be the drawing office.
7. Why are there so many windows?
Come and explore Leiston and see the evidence for yourselves!