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The boy on the left appears to have been diverted from what he was doing: probably he has been hailed by the two cyclists opposite Lloyd's Bank, who seem to be about to head across the road towards him

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.

Notwithstanding the 'shorts only' rule, some of the boys found comfort from a blanket draping their knees.

The boys are helping carry ashore lobster for the fisherman, who appears to have just returned on the incoming tide.

Boys fish beside the lode that was once busy with barges. On the opposite bank is a typical fen farmhouse with a steep roof and tall parapet gables. Boats were loaded at Hythe Lane.

In the foreground a small boy is fishing.

In 1965 the boys blacked their faces and the girls enjoyed dressing up. The parents got very thirsty!

The Long Row frontage is dominated by the Black Boy Hotel with its fantastically decorated façade.

In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.

Two boys are using the drainage dyke to sail their toy yacht. The town was once a significant cloth-producing centre, renowned for its kersey.

Frank Rule's newsagent (extreme left) displays a pavement board announcing a new Dan Dare serial in the boys' comic, the Eagle.

Next door is the white-painted Crown Hotel, and in the foreground stands the village cross, with some Boy Scouts in residence.

In the foreground a young boy appears rather smart in his straw boater. He is looking across to the lady in black, who is standing beside a pram.

Delivery boys lean on their handcart. The shop on the extreme right boasts some highly ornate gas lamps over its frontage.

Here the old village lock-up is pictured with two boys. The building, whose simple Doric doorcase we see here, stands near the council offices at the end of Glynne Way, and dates from the 1740s.

A boy is sat on a rock in the centre of the picture - are the shapes in the sand his handiwork?

Although it was a favourite subject for artists and photographers, they could hardly have known how difficult life must have been for the inhabitants, these barefoot boys amongst them.

Ten years before this photograph was taken, the school had amalgamated with the famous old Blue Coat School, which had itself been founded in 1670 to prepare boys for the Grammar School.

Before the days of a piped water supply, the well to the left would be the focus of a village life well known to the little boy standing at the doorway just beyond it.

We see typical fifties fashion here with the boy's open shirt collar worn over his jacket collar.

A building has architectural pretensions on the right, in front of which the gas lamp post, with leaning boys, appears to be standing in the gutter and not on the pavement.

The small boy's sailor suit was typical of the Edwardian period; as were the white skirts, worn only a couple of inches from the surface of the dirt road.

The building on the right is Thomas Alleyne's Grammar School, originally a school for boys.

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.