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In 1963 the Hall was again sold, becoming an independent school for boys.

They travelled to the big cities by train, hiring a barrow and boy to trundle along behind them from one call to another.

The guilty appearance of the boys in this photograph suggests that they too enjoy the mildly hooligan pastimes that caused Bunyan so much angst in later life.

The boy is lying on the grassy riverside bank known as the Batts.

The Square, one of the ancient market places of Stamford, appears as a pleasant pedestrian area before the dominance of the motorcar; a convention of delivery boys is taking place around the gaslight.

The door at the far left has the inscription 'Boys' above it, so through this door young D H Lawrence entered in 1893, aged 8.

To its left the pyramidal tower belongs to the famous Black Boy Hotel on Long Row, demolished in 1963 and replaced by an utterly gutless Littlewoods store.

Quarrymen - who created this scenic spot - cut out a swimming pool so that the boys could still take their daily dip when the sea was too choppy.

Its market was thriving and very active; this photograph was probably taken just before the arrival of the livestock - boys always made their extra pocket money helping the farmers and drovers control

The boys are standing beside the junction of Park Road. The houses ae Polly's and Clayhanger (left) and Stoke Lodge (cetre) with the terraces being No 16 to No 6 (right).

Boys who joined aged about 17 were sent aboard the 'Calliope' or the 'Northampton'.

To the rear is the former Alderman Newton's Boys Grammar School, the resited 18th-century foundation of Alderman Gabriel Newton, who lies buried in the churchyard of All Saints, High Cross Street

One is said to contain the remains of St Kenelm, the boy saint. The other is the coffin of King Kenulf, who ruled the Saxon kingdom of Mercia from AD796-821.

The 5th Duke of Buccleuch was just a boy when inherited his title in 1819. He lived at Dalkeith, but also had a lodge at Eildon near Melrose.

Note the women catching up on all the gossip outside the shop, and the boy resting from the strains of pushing his wheelbarrow.

Spa water was discovered in 1744 by a farm labourer, John Shires, who was dumb - his mother had cut out his tongue when he was a young boy.

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

A firm disciplinarian and a fine classical scholar, Dr James introduced a tutorial system, along with praeposters or monitors, served by fags, and Dames' houses in the town, where boys could

Seven free schools were set up where 120 boys and 120 girls were both clothed and educated; 20 scholars from further afield were granted aid; ten almshouses were built; 50 blankets were given

The blacksmith's shop and the wheelwright's were next to each other, and the smith obliged with extras: 'blowers' to 'wuther up' the fire and iron hoops for the boys to bowl.

Now we can see the clock erected in memory of the old boys who had lost their lives in the First World War.

Such was the summer holiday of a working-class boy'.

Meanwhile a butcher's boy cycles down the middle of the High Street, a reminder that delivery to the door was expected in 1922.