Boys Collection (page 6)

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge

National Childrens Home (NCH) Milton School, Farnborough
Boys on the lawn at the Milton Industrial School run by the National Childrens Home (NCH) in Farnborough, Hampshire. In 1933, the establishment became Milton Approved School

GLC-LFB Junior firemen learning to drive
The Junior firemen scheme in London ran from 1964 until 1969. 16-17 year old boys were put under extended training until they could be enrolled as operational firefighters at 18

Huntley and Palmers advert
Huntley & Palmers biscuits advert with a boy sitting on a cannon in a sailor uniform, 1901 Date: 1901

Conflict of the Linn boys with the Indians. Print showing Linn brothers in hand-to-hand combat in a Native American village, Kentucky, ca. 1785. Date 1883

Church Choir, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Boys and men choristers in their surplices, pictured with the vicar and organist at All Saints Church, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1920

Cub Scouts cleaning fire engine

Wrecked goods train, Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales

Boy Scouts cleaning street sign, London
Two Boy Scouts cleaning a street sign in Downshire Hill, Hampstead, north-west London during Scout Job Week. In their spare time

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouettes
World War One recruitment poster with silhouettes -- Remember! England Expects -- the Need is Great Today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today

Poster: Simple jobs boys can do themselves, and so help win the war. 1940s

Covent Garden Market, London Date: circa 1907

Stockheath Boys Club
The Nissen huts which form the Stockheath Boys Club and Youth Centre, near Havant, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Susan sits alone on the fence, unhappy to think that Dunderpate is going to marry the tailors daughter or the pastrycooks daughter. Date: 1938

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Scouts with a Rolls-Royce engine
A group of Scouts looking at a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. 1940s

American Cub Scouts
A group of American cub scouts sit around a table doing art and craft activities with their den mother or Akela. In American Cub Scouting, the boys meet in small groups called " dens"

Scout hot air balloon
A group of Scouts preparing to fly their hot air balloon, adorned with the Scout Association Fleur-de-lis emblem, at Gilwell Park. 1976

Closing show of 1960 Scouting Jamboree
Flags from countries around the world are paraded at the closing show of the National Jamboree which was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of scouting in the USA

Boys Hockey Game
A boys hockey game Date: 1908

Coble fishing boat and crew, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A fishing boat and its crew, somewhere in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales (possibly at Llangwm, near Haverfordwest). The boat is a Coble

Boy silhouetted against the sky, holding a crab
A boy wearing a diving mask stands silhouetted against the sea and sky, holding a crab

British car in the South of France
A British car with a GB plate, its driver standing alongside, in a cobblestone square somewhere in the South of France. The Hotel Mediterranee is in the background

Sports Day at Countesthorpe Homes, Leicestershire
A group of boys, including some uniformed band members, at the Countesthorpe cottage homes in Leicestershire on their sports day in 1919

Poplar Union Schools, Brentwood, Essex
In 1906, the Poplar Union (East London) established a Schools site located between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

Band Advertisement, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Advertisement offering the services of the Band of the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

Carpentry & plumbing, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys learning carpentry and plumbing on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868

Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields, Northumberland
The Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868, James Hall and other local businessmen set up a charity to provide shelter for Tyneside waifs

Workhouse Apprentices Handbill, Kendal, Westmorland
Copy of a handbill, thought to date from the 1820s, advertising the availability of boys and girls at the Kirkby, Kendal workhouse for being put out as parish apprentices

Anthony Asquith as a boy at 10 Downing Street, London
Anthony Asquith (1902-1968) as a boy at 10 Downing Street, Central London, when his father, Herbert Henry Asquith, was Prime Minister

Industrial School, Harborne, Birmingham
A man with umbrella at the gates of Harborne Industrial School, Balden Road, Birmingham, opened in 1902 to hold 150 boys. It later became Ansell School then after 1933 was the Tennal Approved School

Children at Play, Hull Sailors Orphanage
Children playing at the Hull Sailors Orphanage, also known as Newland Homes. The boys are in naval uniform. A gardener mows the grass

Blything Union Childrens Home, Yoxford, Suffolk
Children and staff stand in front of the Blything Union childrens home at Yoxford, Suffolk. The home, opened in the early 1900s, accommodated pauper children away from the workhouse

Boys Club, fancy dress, February 1931
Seven boys from a Boys Club in wonderful fancy dress costume. Characters include, a News of the World paperboy, an Arab, a housewife

Senegal - West Africa - Dakar
Children playing in the street in Dakar, Senegal

TS Conway, 1935
Aerial photograph showing the three-masted training ship Conway, moored in the River Mersey, 1935. This photograph shows the crew of boys lining the starboard bulwarks to cheer a cadet leaving

Cuckoo Clock Maker
Two little boys help an old clockmaker, perhaps their grandfather, to make a cuckoo clock in the Black Forest, Germany

Helston Youth Club
A group of boys wearing flared jeans, denim jackets and checked shirts play air guitar to a rock song at Helston youth club

Two Boys by Mill Pond
Two little boys watch the ducks in the old mill-pond in the charming village of Swanage, Dorset

Pupils in playground, St Lukes C of E Primary
Pupils in a school playground, St Lukes C of E Primary

Boys Ferreting
Two boys in caps set a ferret down a rabbit hole

Hyde Park Corner (Boys)
A lively depiction of Hyde Park Corner in early Victorian days - when Wellington was living at Apsley House, left, when traffic was lighter but road works prevalent as ever

Boys playing with toy car, 1930s
Two boys play with a minature Rolls Royce

Oliver Twist / Fagin
Olivers reception by Fagin and the boys

Barnardos Fire Drill, Woodford Bridge
A boy is carried down a ladder during a fire drill at the Barnardos boys home at Woodford Bridge, Essex. Date: Date unknown

Richard III and the sons of Edward IV
Richard III, as Duke of Gloucester, orders the sons of the late King Edward IV be parted from their mother, Elizabeth Woodville. 1480s

Miles Cycle Shop, Sharpness, Gloucestershire. 1914

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