11 nostalgic pictures showing Manchester schools as they used to be
11 nostalgic pictures showing Manchester schools as they used to be
We all have memories of our school days - whether good or bad, they stay with us for life.
These photos illustrate how much classrooms and playgrounds have changed over the generations since they were first published.
Long gone are the blackboards, and school uniforms look rather different today than in some of these archive shots which span the 1920s to 1940s.
There are some poignant images in there too from war-time, when youngsters played music in an air raid shelter to distract from the noises above ground.
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1. Cafe classroom
Schoolchildren in Manchester in their home-made cafe, during a maths lesson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Getty Images
2. Take your partner by the hand
A team competing in the Manchester Schools’ Folk Dance Festival in the Whitworth Street Central School, Manchester, UK, 11 March 1939. Six hundred boys and girls, and one teacher, took part in the festival. Photo: Getty Images
3. Anyone for hockey?
2 June 1936: International hockey player Irene Dimmick, games mistress at Manchester High School, demonstrates tennis strokes to pupils. Photo: Getty Images
4. Young entrepreneurs
4th March 1936: Pupils at Cambrian Street School, Beswick, Manchester operating their own post office as an easy way of learning arithmetic and how to run a business. Photo: Getty Images