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Women, their daughters and a delivery boy stand for the camera where the street climbs to St Mary Magdalene Church.

This picture was taken the year one of the college's famous old boys, Thomas E Brown, died. Born in 1830, the year the college opened, Brown was a poet, scholar, and Fellow of Oriel College.

The men wear mostly caps and jackets while the boy on the left sports an Eton collar. The tent was no doubt erected as part of another formal leisure activity.

Opened in 1877, and still looking pristine in this 1890 view, the Kendrick's Boys School in Queen's Road was endowed by funds first established by John Kendrick's will of 1624.

Dressed for sports, a group of boys check the noticeboard which is in the colonnade under the Big Schoolroom.

While he was away, his apprentice worked out how to construct the pillar after having a dream and built it.

The boy dressed in breeches with cap in hand looks a little lost soul standing in the almost empty cobbled street. On the left there is a sign for Waddingtons Piano Forte Manufacturers.

Lord Hatterton even supported an agricultural school for the benefit of boys aged 10 to 14 years.

The boys would now be contemplating uninspiring blocks of three-storey flats on the Waterside or left bank.

Note the gas street lighting and the dress of the boys in the foreground.

At the entrance to the pier, a group of men stand passing the time of day, watching a group of small boys playing on the rowing boats drawn up on the foreshore. A dog waits patiently.

They have recently been identified as twin boys, Matthew and Robert Peart.

A boy stands on the old slipway into the sluice. At high tide the basin would fill; it was then emptied through an opening at the other end, keeping the harbour free of silt.

It is said that almost every boy from Borth went to sea. In the foreground are some fine clinker-built fishing boats.

Boys on bicycles, shoppers and motorists throng this street, and there is every sign that the public library (left) had a regular flow of readers who still did not have the luxury of owning a newly invented

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

The Castle, in 1955 the Ravenscroft School, a boys' prep school, is a late 16th-century house of three storeys with gabled attics and a three-storey porch and stair turret, both crowned with medieval-style

In this view, two old salts and a boy look out across the pier and the Menai Strait to the mountains of Snowdonia.

This palatial neo-Georgian building was opened in 1913 as the boys' Grammar School, in the right part of the building, and the girls' High School on the left.

The designs for the 107 acres of land included huts for 400 boys and girls, and a further 200 could be accommodated under canvas.

David Morgan, an engineer at Harris's for over thirty years, used to be a delivery boy, and remembers polishing the big brass window sill every Saturday morning for 10s a week.

The little boy walking with his mother and sisters in the left foreground is wearing the young man's fashion of the day - a lumber jacket.

Board sailing was invented here: this was confirmed by a High Court ruling in 1982 stating that Peter Chilvers invented the sail board at Hayling in 1958 when, as a boy of ten, he used a sheet of plywood

This view looks along Church Street from its junction with Market Street and Tylers Way; the latter is a modern road and where the boys stand is now a roundabout.