Children & Schools.

[algy]

Many of these photograph’s may be available

from the Warrington Museum/Library and will

be of far superior quality to those viewed here.

Anyone having any issue with the displaying

of these photographs due to copyright or

ownership infringement please contact me either by PM.

or through the Moderators and I shall

remove them immediately.

 

c1880. Boys being taught shoe making skills at Padgate Cottage Homes.

 

c1880. Padgate Cottage Homes also known as the Padgate Industrial School.

 

c1900. Children of working class parents, Warrington.

 

c1900. Four young scallywags playing in a back street behind Winwick Road, the little girl is wearing her clogs, possibly supplied by Gandy's in Rose & crown Street.

 

c1900. Youngsters playing with the farmyard pump at Manor Farm Westy Lane Latchford

 

c1900. Children sharpening pencils on a kerb stone.

 

1919. St Thomas's C of E School class.

 

St Thomas's C of E School class.

 

1902. Children playing in a 'trap' on Church Street, if they all move to the back of it there would be a heck of a 'bump'.

 

1902. Dallam lane, a couple of young lads wrestling, no doubt the winner walks away with the hand of the young lady!.

[Tracey Bennett]

Those kids without shoes and looking so filthy. Heartbreaking

[Latchford Locks]

What did they call them ? "The Good Old Days"

To me it looked like most kids were wretched waifs no decent clothes or shoes and in need of a good meal.

We can moan a lot about today and the World we live in but would we swap places ?

I think not ...

[harry hayes]

Wonderful pictures. We don't appreciate it, but we live in the best of times.

 

Happy days

[RingoDave]

These excellent photos really need a much wider airing for all the reasons implicit above. A lot of people today should see how lucky they really are.

[Teessidewire]

The first photo of pupils at St Thomas' was shown on here some time ago. The teacher at the back is Miss Charles, who had quite a reputation for discipline (that's putting it mildly). She was still there when I started there in 1960, teaching 11 year olds. Fortunately by the time I got to the top class she had retired.

[algy]

The first photo of pupils at St Thomas' was shown on here some time ago. The teacher at the back is Miss Charles, who had quite a reputation for discipline (that's putting it mildly). She was still there when I started there in 1960, teaching 11 year olds. Fortunately by the time I got to the top class she had retired.

TS, I attended the school in 1950 and the little 'bully' taught me or rather ordered us about, as the old saying goes "little and nasty" and in Miss Charles's case there were never truer words. 'Teddy' Reddish was our headmaster and he was totally different a kind understanding man, Joe Brookhouse was another teacher there in my short time at St. Thomas's.

In the first photo, I believe that the lady teacher is Miss Charles as my father in law is the lad with his arms folded and immediately in front of her, and always maintained that it was her.

[Cleopatra]

One looks at that picture and wonders why she became a teacher. She does not look in the least bit happy in her work. Indeed she looks a postive evil bitch and I sure am glad that it did not befall me to be one of her pupils. However, at my school there was a teacher who might well have been her 'more kindly' sister and, heaven knows, even she was a right bitch of a woman. Did those somewhat sadistic teachers not know, or care, how they scared the living daylights out of their pupils. The bitch at the school I attended caused one girl to have a nervous breakdown and as a result her parents took her out of the school permanently.