Visitors can take their place at desks in three period classrooms and write on slates with chalk before progressing to dip pens and exercise books to practise ornate copperplate writing.
In the time I was not going I invested in a dip pen, some ink and a calligraphy brush.
Dickens was an amazing novelist and one can only imagine what kinds of heights he'd reach if he could write with the dip pen and the inkwell and a portable home theater setup.
They haven't won a Grand Final since I was learning to use a dip pen at school.
From slates we graduated to pencils and eventually to ink with dip pens.