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Two boys appear to be wearing a school uniform: boaters, jacket and starched collars.

At this time the Castle was being used as a Catholic preparatory school for boys.

The small boy in the sternsheets of the boat being rowed by the white-bearded man in the peaked cap seems singularly unimpressed by photography, unlike the youth in the stern of the rowboat

The old HMS 'Impregnable', moored in this stretch of water opposite Devonport Dockyard, was a training ship for boys.

In May 1900, during the Boer War, Mafeking in South Africa was relieved after being defended by the future Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell for 215 days.

Of the three boys in view, possibly only the one on the right is involved with the establishment.

Note the tram just behind the statue, the boys in uniform (centre right) and the various hand- and horse-carts.

The photographer is obviously arousing the interest of the collection of boys in the foreground. The men just behind them appear slightly more reticent.

The small boy on the left is leaning against the wall which formerly enclosed three acres of grounds belonging to the White Hart Hotel, but now occupied by a nondescript block of shops and offices.

Although many of the older people enjoying the sun are well wrapped up, the boy on the right digs happily without a shirt.

The Hall has had many uses, including being a boys' school and a home for evacuees during the war. It is now a hotel.

The boy with his hands in his pockets seems fascinated by the animal.

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).

King Edward VI Free Grammar School, shows School House, which was built by Hugo Daniel Harper, the school's headmaster from 1850, who required new accommodation for himself and boarding boys

The boys in their Sunday best were plainly fascinated by the photographer.

It was originally intended to educate 'poor boys' from the north of England.

Sir John Gresham founded the grammar school here, still known as Gresham's School: old boys include Sir John Reith, founder of the BBC.

It would have been known to H G Wells when he was a boy at the nearby stately home, Uppark.

Then, there were 36 boys, including 8 boarders, and the Headmaster was G J Poole, MA. By 1920, the head was the Rev Ernest Alfred Crewe Stowell, BA, and pupil numbers had risen to about 150.

Here, donkey boys and their mounts are awaiting the arrival of the day's holidaymakers on the beach, watched by a fisherwoman in a tall hat.

A boy from the school, Astley, claimed that Mr Rowell, a grocer, had supplied him with gunpowder for a cork gun. Rowell denied this, and Astley was flogged as a liar.

The typical wide street is almost devoid of traffic, and the little boys posing for the camera can happily play in the street. The chimney is a reminder that the linen industry flourished here.

Note the ladies and children in the centre of the photograph, the former with long skirts and boaters and the children sporting knee-length dresses for the girls and knickerbocker trousers for the boy.

Some time after the end of the Second World War, it became a boys' boarding school run by Essex County Council. Today, it houses the Hockerill Anglo-European School.