1 What can I do here?

So we're standing here in the beautiful grounds here of Grove House. This is where the Froebel Educational Institute moved in 1922, coming from West Kensington on Talgarth Road, very urban surroundings, coming here to this greenery, a pond, lots of trees, lots of nature, all the birds, and taking really advantage of it. The house was purchased in 1921 with funding from Claude Montefiore. And the institute was really looking to expand, to provide better learning environment and better residential areas and learning areas for a growing institute, something which became really very popular and very successful.

The house behind us, Grove House, the white building, was built in its current form in 1790s, built on a much older building. Grove House in its current form was built in the 1790s but built on the foundations of a much older building which can be still found in the cellars of this building. It was bought with the help of Claude Montefiore and provided a much larger environment for learning for the students and for the institute, as such.

So the grounds really provided the opportunity to spread out, to let the nature department grow, and to take advantage of it, to take advantage of all the surroundings, of all the plants, of the birds and of the moorhens etc, everything that is living here on the grounds as well. And the students really took advantage of it.

So the Froebel Education Institute moved here in 1922, which is exactly 100 years. And it is also exactly 100 years since this One Nature Diary was produced. And if we look through the diary, we can actually see that not much has changed. We can still see the same species here. We can still see the same surroundings, and we can really sympathise with the space and the surroundings they've been using for learning.