A Sledge for Snobs - Sledge - Capital Collections

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39828

Title

A Sledge for Snobs - Sledge

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'A Sledge for Snobs'

'Only posh folk in the aulden days hud a fancy yin like that. Roond oor bit maist weans used a bin bag or tea tray but ah took the lid aff ma maw's twin tub washing machine tae sledge. It didnae look as braw as that wooden yin but it worked jist as guid and it couldnae half wheech doon the brae.'

By Helen MacKinven

Image: Fire Fly wooden sledge 1909

Date

1909

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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