I think I am almost ready for the set up of the exhibition at the Workhouse, Southwell (near Nottingham). Having started off without much idea what to submit, I have spent an inordinate amount of time producing "Fanny Hooton's Box" - a box of items which might have belonged to the schoolmistress at the Workhouse in 1873, when she left to get married. I have several items of Victorian/Edwardian clothing (rescued from the dressing-up box), plus a workbasket with a collection of Victorian tools, buttons, threads, plus a Victorian tray with an embroidered sampler, a child's dress made from a man's shirt, two almost-finished child's socks made from unravelled Guernsey yarn, and some samples of tatting, and a sorted collection of buttons sewn on to a tatted-edged hankie. I was given the details of a Victorian book - "The Workwoman's Handbook", and used that to make the child's dress and one of the socks. As well as that I have a picture of the Workhouse printed on a much-repaired embroidered muslin tablecloth, and a collection of ecprinted clothes. The exhibition is on from 1 May until 30 October, when the Workhouse closes for the winter