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To the right, the two boys are beside Ye Olde Shop; beyond it is the King's Head Hotel. Dewhurst the butchers are on the corner of Sheepsgate.

At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans. The new Luton Modern School opened in 1908.

During the 18th century it became a boys' grammar school, and in 1892, the home of Wye Agricultural College.

The main village street was deserted, apart from a small boy standing outside his house in the middle distance, when this photograph was taken.

Everyone has turned out for the photographer, the girls in their smart pinafore dresses and the boys in their dark suits.

This crowded beach beautifully illustrates the beach fashions of the 1920s: ladies wear summer dresses with straw hats, while the boys and gentlemen retain flat caps, jackets and trousers (rolled up

The Minister of Education, however, was keen that Woodlands Girls' and Boys' Schools should remain segregated.

Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop. The policeman is standing in the middle of the road - was a parade about to begin?

Boys wearing ties, jackets and short trousers, and girls with neat ankle socks and strap shoes are typical of school-age children of the 1940s and 50s.

The pinnacled tower of Oakley church has a sturdy staircase turret, a fine Tudor doorway, and a memorial window to William Warham, a local boy, reputedly born at nearby Malshanger House, who

The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall.

The man in the white hat in the background and the three boys in front of him are all looking this way. Are they watching the girl pushing the pram, or the photographer?

A boy is sitting between the shafts of a handcart in the middle of the road. At this time the main business activity in Flookburgh was fishing on Morecambe Bay.

Notice also the girl with a hoop on the right, the two inquisitive boys and a somewhat less inquisitive dog.

On the sands below, Edwardian fashions still predominate; notice the two boys in sailor suits throwing stones at the incoming tide.

Some of the boys on the beach were probably from Mostyn House School in the town; the yacht in the foreground is a typical 12ft vessel favoured by the school.

Next to it stands Ipsley Court, where the poet Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) lived as a boy.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

The Black Boys is owned by Morgan and Co, another of the four great breweries of Norwich.

Small boats and small boys enjoy the sun. Of the buildings behind the beach, three were public houses. The central building is the famous Sloop Inn, still operating today.

By the late 1890s the local fleet comprised 56 boats employing 346 men and boys, landing an annual catch valued at less than £3,000.

A young boy stands thoughtfully on the Long Bridge, which spans Cuckoo Weir. Across the meadow you can see the spire of Clewer Church.

The village school's most famous old boy is Sydney Wooderson, a Blackheath Harrier, who in 1937 ran a mile in just four minutes and 6.4 seconds.

Among its old boys were Charles Darwin and Judge Jeffreys.