Teacher hid chocolates in my school books... but I only found them 18 years later
Last updated at 1:51 PM on 21st June 2011
It was a very sweet idea.
So it is understandable a schoolmaster who hid chocolates inside a book for a pupil wondered why he never got thanked.
But unfortunately young Mark James never got as far as opening the book and it was thrown to the back of a cupboard, where it lay undiscovered for 18 years.
They came to light in 1985 when Mr James’s wife Alexandra found them.
After then being mislaid and found again when they moved house, she decided the story needed telling, so she showed the book to Fiona Bruce on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
Sweet: Teacher Steven Baines hid chocolates inside a book for Mark James
Mark James was given the books by his English master when an 11-year-old prep school pupil
The book was bound together with another tome and given to Mr James when he was 11 years old.
One was called The Island Secret by WM Graydon and the other was Mart Of Nations by Winifred Duke, but they didn’t seem interesting to him so he forgot all about them.
Inside, English teacher Steven Baines had generously placed two Mars bars, two Bounties, two Turkish Delights and a pair of Chocolate Creams.
He taught Mark, now 55, at Edgeborough Prep School in Farnham, Surrey, and Alexandra managed to track him down.
‘I’ve waited a long time for this call,’ he told her.
Alexandra, 53, told the Daily Express: ‘The teacher must have spent hours creating it – he must have been very fond of Mark. He said he wondered why Mark had never thanked him the following term.
‘When I told Mark he vaguely remembered having been given the books and didn’t want to read them and had never even opened them.’
Write stuff: Mark James with the treats his teacher Mr Baines had given him
Amazed: Fiona Bruce can't help but laugh when she hears about the hidden chocolates from Mark's wife, Alexandra, on the Antiques Roadshow
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006081/Chocolate-gifts-lay-undiscovered-inside-hollow-book-18-years.html#ixzz1Py8wusge
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