MINEHEAD schoolchildren were given a taste of life in Victorian times with a very special lesson at the West Somerset Rural Life Museum in Allerford.

Pupils from Minehead First School were kitted-out in the type of clothes children would have worn to school more than 100 years ago.

They were then given a lesson in the museum's own Victorian schoolroom - complete with slate and chalk instead of ballpoint pens and notebooks.

The trip was organised as part of the children's national curriculum studies.

Pictured with teacher Jean Harbottle are, from the left, Emily Furse, Sarah Clegg, Sam Sparks, William Daughtry and Evan Hill.

Photo: Steve Guscott.