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Usually crewed by four men and a boy, and capable of staying at sea for about six days, they operated throughout Liverpool Bay, Cardigan Bay and around the Isle of Man, trawling for plaice, sole, haddock

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.

A former warship, the 'Empress', rides at anchor off Gareloch, where she was stationed for many years as an Industrial Training Ship for homeless and destitute boys.

On that hot summer's day, twenty-six girls and boys aged from seven to seventeen perished.

Riding at anchor to the right of the funnel of the 'Manchester' is HMS 'Southampton', a boys' training ship at Hull from 1867 to 1912.

In 1885 the Deaf and Dumb school had 36 boys and nearly 200 girls in residence. It was always a Children's School - an adult Deaf and Dumb Institute later opened at All Saints, Manchester.

Celebrations nowadays merit no beer, but home-made ice-cream can be bought from the Willow Café, where two boys stand.

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

The barrels to the left of the arch probably belong to the Bush Inn, whose cellar entrance can be seen between what were probably the naughty boys who cropped up regularly in local newspapers of the

In the shallow recess stands a pump which was used by the boys to collect their washing water until washrooms and indoor toilets were installed in 1922.

Several of the boys are in knickerbockers. To the right of the Post Office, outside the shop next door and beneath the awning, stand two policemen. The only traffic in the street is a pony and cart.

In the shallow recess stands a pump which was used by the boys to collect their washing water until washrooms and indoor toilets were installed in 1922.

For those unfamiliar with Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), she is most famous for the line 'The boy stood on the burning deck', from her poem 'Casabianca', written in the 19th century.

To the rear of the Guildhall, in 1949, was Alderman Newton's Boys Grammar School, the resited 18th-century foundation of Alderman Gabriel Newton, who now lies buried in the churchyard of All Saints, High

Whilst a Jaguar 2½ litre heads a row of cars in 1955, only a little boy with a pram uses the road in 1898.

Not all the boys were ideal scholars; they went on a riot for several days in 1882, after the captain of school was expelled for book-making.

In 1959 a housemaster from Gordonstoun founded what is now Box Hill School, which accommodates approximately 300 boys and girls, both boarding and day pupils.

The summer of 1906 was particularly hot, and the small pond on their land had run dry.

Charlie Shore's Regatta Local waterman Charlie Shore founded the Boys and Girls Regatta in 1894.

wonderful photograph shows a beautiful convertible car, probably belonging to one of the landed gentry; the two delivery men enjoy a break whilst their horses tuck into their nosebags; and the little boy

Each of them, they said, had a boy who died in the war, and they did not want a daily reminder of it.

straightening of Marlow Hill in 1936, which involved demolishing buildings on the left side of the road south of St Mary's Street, and other traffic-related demolition, most notably of the Black Boy

Infants' classes were later added to the school, and in 1874 a new school for boys was built in Aughton Street, adjoining what is now Park Road.