Schoolchildren Collection (#10)

Meltham newsagent Mrs Annie Woodhead pictured keeping up the village tradition of giving out sweets to local children for Collop Monday

Some of the 56 children aged between four and 13, who attended St John Church Sunday school, Rastrick, took part in pancake races and other activities, including cookery. 19th February 1985

Slaithwaite Church Guides sort through some of the 100 vests they have knitted to be sent to children in Ethiopia. All 22 members of the company made good a Christmas promise by knitting

Tiny Tia Pinnock-Hamilton toddled five miles to help raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Four-year-old Tia, joined a pack of sponsored walkers who trekked from Huddersfield to Bradford

Children from Spring Grove Junior school staged a sponsored knit-in to raise £; 50 for famine relief in Ethiopia. About 90 of the schools senior children

Paddock School celebrated its belated centenary with an open day - and birthday girls Megan Hennah and Samantha Horsfall (left and right centre)

A 99 year old copy of the mineras in near-perfect condition when it was taken from a time capsule which was underneath a foundation stone at Mount Pleasant Junior School, Lockwood. 31st January 1985

Mr Brian Carter, the secretary of Huddersfield Third World Committee, receives a £ 60 cheque from St Josephs RC Church cub scout pack, Huddersfield

These 8 youngsters fought a close contest in a qualifying round for the final of the Miss Sunderland annual Top of the Form music competition

Shepley Youth Club leader Stewart Hughes kept an eye on the clock as club members took part in a 24-hour pool marathon at the club, which raised 164 to buy sports and other equipment

Highburton Guides are pictured with home made sweets at a coffee morning which raised £ 110 for guide funds. The event at the village hall also featured stalls, including tombola

Almondbury Youth Club members are helping an Oxfam appeal to knit pullovers for Ethiopia. More than a dozen members - some of whom have taken up knitting for the first time - have contributed to

Twelve year old Nicola Senior and Gail Wyke 13 both of Scar Grove, knitted blankets to help the charities collecting cash for the appeal. 18th February 1985

These Newsome girls raised 60 for the famine victims in Ethiopia. 19th February 1985

Jonathan Sheard and John Eccles are pictured battling it out in a cub chess competition. Thirteen teams from throughout the scouting movement Huddersfield South West district took part in

Scouts from Lepton and Crosland Moor ready to start one of the tests during a winter competition at Moor End High School. Sixteen teams from throughout the scout three Huddersfield districts took

Kirklees playbus is back in action, Repair work has been carried out in recent weeks on the bus run by the National Children Centre at Longroyd Bridge

A Charity has been activatedfter 20 years, so now pupils of Denby Dale CofE First school will have lots of fun on this new play equipment

Eleven-year-old Ayshea Munsi as iverwith the other workhouse boys during a production at Royds Hall High School. She is one of two iversfor this annual school production

Children at Lindley CofE Infants school examine some of the handiwork of teachers and mothers who, with members and mothers of Lindley Methodist Guides

Mrs Susan Stainton of the childrens cancer charity the Candlelighters and sons Ben and Joe accept a cheque for £ 40 for Mr David Turner, landlord of the Junction Inn, Manchester Road

Liverpool International Garden Festival Fringe. Singing schoolchildren sent the rain away at Croxteth Hall in the Festival Fringe 84

17th Huddersfield - Linthwaite Church - Scouts and Cubs annual presentation evening, 13th January 1989

Boys from St Johns Church of England Junior and Infants School, at the Examiners Aspley base, washing the papers vans for the Blue Peter Kampuchea appeal, 7th January 1989

Halifax Building Society Little Extra competition winners at the Ramsden Street Branch pictured with marketing and production manager Jane Stevenson, 5th January 1989

Pupils at Flockton First School, winners of 250 pounds first prize in a Competition organised by a Leeds recycling firm, to see who could collect the most paper, 4nd January 1989

Pupils at Kings School, Wordswoth Crescent, Cardiff, hold a carol service at St Germans Church in Roath, Wales, 15th December 1981

Christian Clapton (left) and Paul Isbel (right) trudge through the thick snow to get to school at Magrove Park, Middlesbrough. 24th January 1984

Pupils from St Edwards RC Primary School in Middlesbrough enjoy the sudden snow fall in Middlesbrough. 4th February 1988. Left to right, Elizabeth Hunneysett, Louise Smith and Maria Turley

Linthwaite Church of England School pupils being presented with a road safety certificate by Supt. Allan Dobson, sub divisional officer for Holmfirth Police. 18th January 1989

Holme Valley Cubs with commemorative mugs celebrating 65 years of scouting in the Holme Valley, 28th January 1989

Pupils from Salendine Nook High School, present a cheque for 850 poounds to John Proctor, acting head of Holly Bank School, for their new premises at Mirfield, 26th January 1989

Pupils from Birkby Infant School, learn short tennis from Karen McLoughlin, 25th January 1989

Holly Bank cheque presentation by the Friends of Holly Bank, who raised 1, 264 pounds, that will go towards new premises at Mirfield. 20th January 1989

Pupils from Mount School Edgerton, who have raised 160 pounds for the Kirklees Mayors local Children in Need appeal, pictured with Mayor Clr John Holt. 18th January 1989

School boys and women at the 1948 Model Engineer Exhibition at Seymour Hall, London. Children and women looking at a model of winding gear. January 1948

School boys at the 1948 Model Engineer Exhibition at Seymour Hall, London. Children looking at collectable cigarette cards. January 1948

Ten Liverpool schools come together for a carol concert in Clayton Square, Liverpool. They were accompanied by the Liverpool Passenger Transport Band

Little Downham Boys Team, made up of 10 year olds from Downham Foeffees Junior School, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, 2nd December 1973. Daily Mirror School Team of the Month, for November

Pupils from St Augustine school wait for Prince Charles and Princess Diana to arrive at Sunnyside School Middlesbrough. 16th July 1985

Stars of the Muppets show, Miss Piggy and Kermet the Frog make a surprise visit to Bill Quay Community Farm in Gateshead 25 September 1986

100s of Cleveland children set off from Head Wrightson Wharf, Middlesbrough for a trip down the River Tees aboard the P.S. Waverly. 11th May 1981

Youngsters at four Wearside schools were tucking into healthy meals - and it was with their full blessing. The schools launched School-based Nutrition Action Groups to boost the nutritional standards

Llenifer Nelson, cook in charge at Harton County Junior and Infants School, in South Shields, won the Scotland and North East regional final of the School Cook of the Year Competition 1998

With no lunchtime supervision it was self-service dinner for these children at Laygate Lane Junior Mixed School, South Shields. 22/11/1967

Alan Jackson, 10, and Jenene Brodie, 9, tuck into their breakfast at Laurel Avenue Primary School, Durham, to promote National Breakfast Week. 12/09/1997

Comedian Les Dawson presented a £10, 000 mini coach to Glebe School in Killingworth
Comedian Les Dawson presented a £ 10, 000 mini coach to Glebe School in Killingworth on behalf of the Variety Club of Great Britian 1 October 1987

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit the fabulous "Silver City"
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit the fabulous " Silver City" created in the midst of the desolate Australian outback by the development of some of the worlds largest lead

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