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This is another view westwards from opposite the Bull Hotel, with a sighting of Boy Scouts in hats (beside the lamp-post) and a pavement placard for Devonshire Cream Teas.

Sadly the trees have gone, along with the house on the far left, which was part of Sutton High School for Boys.

Delivery boys loiter outside Hawkes' tile-hung hardware shop. On the right is a smart brown stone and granite building, characteristic of the locality.

Wares are displayed outside the shops, and shopkeepers, with their aprons, are among the crowd, and a boy stands with a hoop on the left. At the street's end is the Cornish Bank.

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.

Queen's College, named after Philippa, wife of Edward III, was originally founded to educate 'Poor Boys' from the north of England.

The new school opened in 1896 with room for 100 boys and 80 girls, with a catchment area extending from Rhigos to Mountain Ash.

A fisherman and two boys scull their boats around the pier of the inner harbour.

This and 66914 were taken on a hot summer's day. The parish church with its octagonal tower and spire rises over the roofs.

This between-the-wars view along Beaconsfield Road shows the straight forest road and one lone delivery boy. Soldiers of the Portuguese army were stationed here in World War I.

This is summer: awnings give shade to the shops on one side of the street, and one of the boys holds a cricket bat.

The Button Bros fascia sign on the left marks the location of the official supplier for uniforms and haircuts for the boys from Luton Grammar School.

Two young boys, perhaps pupils from the King's School whose upper storeys and decorated chimneys are visible in the middle foreground inside the cathedral grounds, stand beside a table in the Vines.

Its walls are hidden beneath some rather tatty rendering, but are almost certainly made of granite, which can be seen in the arch below the gable, and in the horse trough in which the little boy

It was originally called the Tercentenary Hall, but as this is a bit of mouthful, it quickly became renamed New Hall by the boys.

There was no children's library although 'boys were allowed to read newspapers in the corridor'.

The bridge on which the boys are standing was relatively new when this photo was taken.

The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.

A parish clerk of Kempsey Church once caught a choir-boy eating chestnuts inside the building.

A Kettering resident remembers the town centre in the 1920s and 1930s when policemen, with arms outstretched, directed what little traffic there was, errand-boys cycled through the streets loaded with

The photographer has also caught two boys playing on a pedal cycle.

The only traffic is a boy with a wheelbarrow. On the left is the market cross, which was erected in 1882 on the site of an ancient cross.

Lawrence Sheriff School was opened in 1879 in response to Dr Temple's proposal in 1864 that a separate free school be established for local boys.

Note the boy sweeping the sand away.