Welcome return of School Prints loan scheme

It is good to see that schools in Wakefield will benefit from a renewed School Prints loan scheme from the Hepworth Wakefield (Editorial, 15 January). As a secondary school teacher in Sheffield during the 1970s and 80s our classrooms and corridors were loaned brilliant visual resources by Sheffield City Art Galleries under the directorship of the late Frank Constantine. But more remarkable was the personal picture loan service whereby, on alternate Saturday mornings, I could take my two children to the Graves Art Gallery, where they could select pictures from transparencies, have the pictures brought from the store to view and select two to hang at home. This aspect of Frank Constantine’s legacy was overlooked in his Guardian obituary in 2014. Is such a loan scheme active, or even possible, now?
Professor Terry Gifford
Wookey, Somerset

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