Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

I used to have patches like that when I was at school. Made my Harris Tweed jackets last much longer.

A close look at the photograph shows that the boy seen front row right, has a leather patch covering the right elbow of his jacket.

These were sometimes fitted to reinforce the sleeves on (expensive) blazers, to prevent them from getting worn through too quickly.

These patches were not always officially approved, but were usually overlooked.

Bradley - better late than never, I suppose. The microscopes we used at school had X5 magnification eyepieces, with objectives ranging from X10 to X40. Multiply the two together to get the overall magnification. And no, the microscope in that picture is a plain bog-standard optical microscope. I donlt know whether electron microscopes even existed back in 1959, but if they did they were high-tech research tools that would take up most of the space in that room,andf schools certainly didn't have them.

I am the elbow on the right of the photo. Pearson is standing next to my best friend at school - Brian Haworth.

Difficult to tell really They look like the microscopes we used in the Biology lab.
Standard school issue I suppose.

Can anyone inform me of what magnification these microscopes would have provided? I'll assume they're not electron microscopes!