Childhood
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Childhood - Schools
The wonders of nature are probed during a lesson in flower-dissecting, under the guiding eye of Mr. Eric Pearson (Biology master).
Views: 28,873 Year: 1959 6 Comments
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Childhood - Schools
Led by Stuart Bennett (Captain), right, the cross-country team returns from a practice run around the nearby country-side.
Views: 473,375 Year: 1959 1487 Comments
Burnley Grammar School
Childhood - Schools
Engineers of tomorrow, under the eye of Mr. J. H. Morton (Metal Work instructor), use a micrometer on a lathe. From left, David Riley, David Yanik and Colin Chapman.
Views: 31,845 Year: 1959 13 Comments
Burnley Grammar School
Childhood - Schools
There's pleny of room in the modern-styled gymnasium for muscle developing, where the boys are supervised by Mr. R. Parry, the physical education instruction.
Views: 1,579,534 Year: 1959 6911 Comments
Early Motoring
Childhood - Playing Out
A young David Pilkington test drives an old Austin.
Views: 16,835 Year: 1958 4 Comments
Not everyone wants to watch...
Childhood - Playing Out
...jumping, even at a horse show. While the rest of the crowd were wasting their time applauding the entrants this youngster found much more important work filling all the empty mineral bottles and tea containers he could find.
Views: 16,217 Year: 1958 1 Comment
Fulwood County Secondary School
Childhood - Schools
Instruction from the expert, Miss Hilary Peet, physical education mistress, who plays netball for Lancashire and who is also a member of the County swimming team.
Views: 124,107 Year: 1958 276 Comments
Fleetwood Grammar School
Childhood - Schools
In the bright and cheery domestic science room, the girls are taught the art of cooking and other kitchen "chores" by Miss P. Green (third from right).
Views: 27,533 Year: 1958 7 Comments
Test Match Victories
Childhood - Playing Out
Test Match Victories may be won on the 'playing fields' off the Caledonian Road in North London, but it would be better for the children if the stumps were set in green fields.
Views: 16,646 Year: 1954 4 Comments
Play Street
Childhood - Playing Out
Forbidding traffic to use the streets helps to save life and limb, but the provision of some forty play streets in London is no real solution to the problem.
Views: 17,796 Year: 1954 2 Comments
Skipping
Childhood - Playing Out
Paving stones are a poor substitute for the green grass of real playing fields. Railings are useful for holding one end of the skipping rope, but passers-by interrupt the game.
Views: 17,494 Year: 1954
The Quiet Game of 'Tig'
Childhood - Playing Out
"And O-U-T spells OUT". Counting-out rhymes are often relics of tribal mumbo-jumbo, magical rites like casting lots. Sometimes they imitate numerals of forgotten languages.
Views: 29,603 Year: 1950 1 Comment
'O Then She Was a Lady and This is the Way She Went...'
Childhood - Playing Out
The imitation game, performed by the rising talent of the play-streets. Half-a-dozen smashing impersonations of really smashing people, completed in as many minutes.
Views: 17,703 Year: 1950 1 Comment
One of the Fixed Festivals of Town Life: The Opening of the Hopscotch Season
Childhood - Playing Out
As any girl will tell you; as any girl's mother will tell you; as any girl's grandmother - it has to be early in spring. How to play the game, and when, descends as a tradition from generation to generation. Where to play is never a problem.
Views: 15,143 Year: 1950 1 Comment
The Spring Game of Leap-frog
Childhood - Playing Out
Sunshine siezes the children in the street with an urge to get their feet off the ground. This is the time for hopping, leaping, vaulting, frog-jumping, and skipping.
Views: 14,097 Year: 1950
Trainspotting
Childhood - Playing Out
Photo taken on Christmas Eve. Note the young lad on the railings at the back, Health and Safety would have a field day!
Views: 10,446 Year: 1936
Hesketh Fletcher Gym Team
Childhood - Schools
Hesketh Fletcher Gym Team of Atherton, Greater Manchester.
Views: 388,481 Year: 1935 1135 Comments