Teaching and Learning: Botany Students Water Sampling, 1938.
In this photograph from 1938 a Botany student is letting down an automatic-closing bucket. From this, water from any required depth can be collected to later examine.
Field trips were another more hands on way of teaching students and encouraging them to discover for themselves.
In Geology ‘A field class in Practical Geology is conducted by the Reader. Occasional visits are paid to places of geological interest in the neighbourhood of London during term-time, and an extended expedition for field work is arranged during the Easter vacation.’ 1947-1948.
As mentioned previously, for engineering students these field trips were arranged through the Engineering Society and involved visiting factories and places of work through which they could experience for themselves the type of work that they might become a part of. The society visited Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co Ltd, 1911-1912. They also visited educational exhibitions such as the Electrical Exhibition in Olympia, 1911-1912.