Lessons Collection

Liverpool footballer Phil Neal with wife Sue and their children at home. February 1984

Norton School, Berkshire Road, Norton, Cleveland, Stockton on Tees, 19th June 1980. Norton School is pioneering a special exchange scheme with schoolchildren in Toulouse, France

The children of Peel Park Junior School, Accrington, who went on holiday to Bournemouth this year, and were said to be the nicest bunch of children to go there

Front line French class for R. A. F. in Tunisia. 9th March 1943
Front line French class for R.A.F. in Tunisia. 9th March 1943

Over 200 schoolchildren from Wood Green School, North London, went on a Hovercraft trip from Dover to make a first hand study of the Goodwin Sands

Pupils at Roxeth Primary School, Harrow, being taught English pronunciation using the Clearspell alphabet system. 8th November 1961

Pure chemistry... Greenhead College science students (from left) Andrew Maxwell, Ruth Bostock and Baljinder Nijjare get the equation right at the first of three open days for prospective students

Education was far more sexist in the 1930s than it is today. These little girls who attend holland Street School are obviously learning how to be good wives and mothers. Circa 1930s

The Sandwell Valley Riding Centre in West Bromwich, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire). Pupils master one of Englands most loved sports near two motorway link roads, the M5 and M6

Schoolgirls Atlanta Wardell-Yerburgh (l) & Elizabeth Bulloch have broken a 43 year old tradition at New Park School in St Andrews Fife Scotland 23rd January 1977

Children waiting for School Meals, check whats on the menu for today, Friday 28th May 1971

Boys at Stockport primary school get an extra bonus when they attend their weekly art lessons. Their teacher, Irene Humphries, 25, is also a model. November 1969 Z11777-003

Miners Boys. Man teaches children science. May 1947 P018195

William Blake Secondary School, Battersea. Gymnastics. March 1952 C1257-003

Cadets on guard duty being inspected by a Senior Officer. 6th August 1942

Sea Cadets from Horley, Surrey training in Shoreham-by-Sea. The visit Shoerham twice a week for practice as there is no sea at Horley

Cadets under instructions by a Senior Officer learning how a bow-line knot is made. 6th August 1942

Naval Cadets undergoing training at a Naval establishment in the heart of England during the Second World War. 31st August 1943

General Instruction consisting of Boatwork. Compass & Helm Knots and Splices, Semaphore and Parts of a Rifle. In the fore ground

Commander Grant teaches orphans in the training ship Stork, moored on the River Thames, for future roles in the Royal Navy or the Merchant Service

Learner driver in a Volkswagen Beetle. May 1962

Somewhere in Derbyshire - Carpentry tools, varnish and paints line the walls of the woodwork room of a school in Derbyshire, where children, evacuated from the Manchester district

Dunston swimming baths where the local authority has been running a learn to swim course for under fives. 18th August 1978

A happy atmosphere and a patient teacher. Given these ingredients and any child can learn to swim. Here the children of Monkhouse Junior School are put through their paces by Mrs Brewerton

Boys of Christs Hospital School, Horsham, have practical interest lessons in farming, to provide an alternative occupation in later life

With their mothers at work in the Steinberg and Sons Ltd factory in Hawthorn, Pontypridd, children listen to a story at the factory nursery school

With their mothers at work in the Steinberg factory in Pontypridd, Wales, have a lesson in needlework at a nursery creche paid for by the company to prevent absenteeism amongst their mothers during

Sports mistress, Miss Reid, teaches football to the boys of Park Hill School, Kingston, Surrey. 13th March 1954

Map of the world, laid out in concrete in the grounds of Audley Park school, Torquay in 1939. The map is figurative with the Americas on the right

Class Four of Steward Street School Birmingham seen here having an art lesson. 19th July 1949

Halcyon days when class sizes were no bigger than twenty children. A morning of Maths and English for the the pupils of Christopher Hatton Primary. 15th November 1962

Science master seen here with his students during a revision class prior to sitting their exams. 22nd November 1956

Storytime - third year infants at Brockholes CE Junior and Infants School tune into a story as part of their primary language programme

Craft and design pupils at Whitley Abbey School in Coventry at work on their latest project, the assembling of a Turbulent single seater plane for their upcoming Aerolink exhibition

Brakenhale School Feature, Bracknell, Berkshire, 15th January 1986. Biology

Education was far more sexist in the 1930s than it is today. These little girls who attend holland Street School are obviously learning how to be good wives and mothers. Circa 1930s

War and Children: Happy days in the Orchard Nursery. April 1942 P002350

Pupils from St Dominics Primary School, Redcar, have all been handed out Red Alert bookers to make them aware of the dangers with fire. Katie Dowson, 7, is pictured with her new book. 7th October 1997

Cooking up something special for harvest time are these pupils of Royds Hall High School, Paddock. About 20 fifth formers baked the giant harvest sheaf loaf measuring 22in by 16in as part of their

Write on... Mrs Margaret Kendall teaches youngsters at Scissett Middle School about calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting

Urban Nature Reserve, Everton, Merseyside, 16th September 1994

Children from Westlands Special School, Thornaby, conduct a six month study of a 200 year old oak tree, as part ofthe Great British Oak competition, Thornaby, 15th March 1986

These swimmers are learning the techniques of life saving on a new course at Huddersfield Sports Centre. The Junior Life Saving Course is open to anyone between eight and 14

Learning through football... Holmfirth Junior School pupils Sophie Carr (front), Crystal Ward and James Bowers measure Huddersfield Towns pitch in a pioneering education project

Weoley Castle residents Miss Irene Lucas, Mrs Winne Benling go back to school, at Ilmington Road School. 13th July 1981

Weoley Castle residents go back to school, at Ilmington Road School. 13th July 1981

These 28 pupils of Dalton Junior School were all smiles after receiving their cycling proficiency certificates and badges

Machines like this Suzuki 250 will take on a new image when learner-rider laws change this year. Circa 1982

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