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Every week I used to walk to the baths in a crocodile of schoolboys from Sutton High School for Boys in Cheam Road, for swimming lessons. The building was demolished in 1971.

The camera proves to be a magnet to two small boys (extreme right).

On the west side, Middlesex County Council built Ealing County Boys School in 1913 in Queen Anne style. It is now part of Ealing and West London College.

The delivery boy with his basket, lounging against a pillar of the Harbour Office, seems to have adopted a far more natural pose than that of the lad nearest to him or the stiffly standing

The area in front of a church was often treated as a public place, here, two boys lead a pony to drink at the pump and atering trough beside a traditional stone cottage.

The college opened in 1868, taking 80 boarders and 120 day boys, not all Methodists. It soon became the largest school in Belfast.

The family in the boat are enjoying sailing on a light breeze, and the boy on the bank is fishing, probably for tench, although eel catching is more popular.

Girls watch the boys go by. Fashions have changed: there are no bikinis and no bare chests here.

The turreted building in the distance is the boys' grammar school, which was demolished in the mid 1960s.

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.

Children have been playing near railway lines for generations and the temptations of two lines so close together were obviously too much for the determined (probably) small boys who prised

The stationmaster watches carefully as the little girl is brought back from the edge of the platform by her mother, whilst the boy clutches his wicker basket.

He had the swimming pool cut into the rocks (lower centre left) so that his boys could still have their daily dip - stripped naked - when conditions were too rough for jumping into the sea.

Driving was not the stress that it is today - it is crucial that the owner of the open-topped car notices the little boy only inches behind his rear wheel!

The large building at the end of the row is the Paul David Memorial Concert Hall and Gymnasium opened by Field Marshal Earl Roberts on 30 March 1905 as a memorial to old boys who served in the Boer

The Black Boys has been a popular inn for over 100 years; behind its signpost is a fine Zephyr, one of Ford's first vehicles with independent front suspension and column gear-change.

The spire or turret on the roof of the school was removed in 1919 and replaced with a clock in memory of the old boys of the school who fell in the First World War.

Usually crewed by four men and a boy, they trawled for plaice, sole, haddock, and cod. The Morecambe Bay prawner, also known locally as a half-decker, shrimper, or nobby, was a cutter-rigged smack.

Boys stayed here until aged 15, girls until the age of 17. The orphanage closed in 1909 to become a secondary school, which merged in 1985 with Heath School.

The school still thrives as a public school, nowadays taking girls as well as boys.

There was at this time a set of swings for girls and another set for boys, and the playground was also divided. Moor Park had an open-air swimming pool as well.

There was at this time a set of swings for girls and another set for boys, and the playground was also divided. Moor Park had an open-air swimming pool as well.

The building, formerly the Black Boy, dates from the 16th century but the front elevation is part of the restoration work of 1890 by Frank Shaylor.