Prior Weston Primary School, Islington
The Great Fire of London 1666, ceramic panel in local historical timeline
finished mural pupils finding out how to get different textures in clay using household junk and odds
and ends
Wesley's Chapel, ceramic panel in local historical timeline
Islington Suffragettes, ceramic panel in local historical timeline
Emmeline Pankhurst and the Islington Suffragettes
The Blitz, ceramic panel in local historical timeline
checking the collage for size in situ making relief clay panel from the drawings close up of the German planes dropping bombs onto East London during World War II
The Barbican, ceramic panel in local historical timeline
Emmeline Pankhurst and the Islington Suffragettes
Maud Milton read to the pupils from Samuel Peyps' diaries, describing the terrible sight of the Great Fire as seen from London Bridge. Peyps' descriptions of the pigeons falling from the skies with their wings ablaze and of the ground being too hot to walk on for three days inspired the pupils.They wrote short descriptions describing the fire. We collaged the most successful words into a sentence of 82 characters to fit along the base of the mural.

Maud worked with the pupils slabbing out clay to make the mural and the children brought in odds and ends, scrap pieces of cloth, broken toys, bits of Lego, wood, whatever they could find, into school. This was our tool kit with which the pupils translated their design into marks on the surface of the clay.

The mural was cut up into pieces, fired and then was assembled and put up in cold December 2001. It will last for years and years.