Learning Collection (page 10)

Women Upholsterers
Young women carpentry students at the London County Council Trade School learning how to upholster a chair. Date: 1930s

Train Driving Lesson
Driver Instructor CYRIL BULL, Lostock Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England (left), explains the cab layout of an electric locomotive to Preston train driver RICHARD THOMAS. Date: circa 1980

Carpentry Lesson 1930S
A class of boys learning carpentry. Date: early 1930s

Apprentice Blacksmiths
Boys, apprentices, learning how to be blacksmiths. Date: early 1930s

Learning to Drive by Mallet
Tck, Tck! First gear once again, Mrs Turner and this time see if you can t drive RIGHT round the bend. A nervous learner driver has difficulty mastering the most basic of motoring skills. Date: 1953

Russian children learning the alphabet
Three Russian boys learning the alphabet Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - PE at the Gordon College, Khartoum
Sudan - Physical Exercise for the students at Gordon College Khartoum. Date: circa 1910s

Tea tango craze: learning to Tango, 1913
Ladies learning the tango standing in a circle, while teacher Mme Vicarni instructs and drills them in steps and movements. Here, the correct position of the arm is demonstrated. Date: 1913

Poster, The Recruit Who Took To It Kindly. Showing an army recruit learning to use his bayonet and demolishing a row of stuffed sacks

National Childrens Home & Orphanage Lancashire Branch - Clo
The Lancashire branch of the home and orphanage run by the National Childrens Home (NCH). Here, boys in aprons and surrounded by the tools of the trade are learning the craft of clog-making

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Irish Beaver Scout footpainting
An Irish scout showing a younger Beaver Scout how to do foot painting. 1970s

Scouts at Heathrow Airport
Mr Trevor Scott-Chard and London Air Scouts at London Heathrow Airport with British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing Stratocruiser Canopus behind them. 1950

Scouts with Elliotts Primary EoN Glider
One Scout of the 18th Walsall Group sits at the cockpit of a Elliotts Primary EoN Glider, demonstrating how to fly it, while two other scouts sit on the ground watching. 1940s

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Air Scout in glider
An Air Scout sits smiling in the cockpit of a glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scouts using RAF flight simulator
Scouts being instructed on how to operate a LINK trainer by a Royal Air Force officer. 1940s

Cubs learning about the Royal Navy
A young Naval Officer explains aspects of a Royal Navy ship to a group of Cub Scouts in Aden, Yemen. They lean over a piece of equipment and the officer points at one of the boys. circa 1968

Sea Rangers learning about Royal Navy
A young Royal Navy officer talks to a group of Sea Rangers about the work of the Royal Navy, pointing to aspects of the ship in Aden, Yemen. circa 1968

Explorers at safe driving Road Rally
Boys preparing for their Road Rally event. Every year American Explorers can join specially arranged national events. A popular one is the Road Rally that involves safe driving. circa 1960s

Scout Patrol Leaders Course, Aden
Scouts on a course for Patrol Leaders in Aden, Yemen. 1960

Apprentice cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London
An apprentice learning his trade at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. c.1947

Scouts and Guide with a glider
Two Air Scouts and a Girl Guide sitting in the cockpit of a Slingsby T.21 glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

The Three R s
Following the introduction of the Elementary Education Act, commonly known as Forsters Education Act, in February 1870, Punch magazine depicts William Forster, the Liberal MP who drafted the Act

P. M. Scott, National Gliding Champion
P.M. Scott, winner of the 1963 National Gliding Championships, sitting in an Olympia 419 glider at the Lasham Gliding Centre

Air Scouts learning aircraft recognition
One Air Scout from St Pauls School draws a picture of a Spitfire on a blackboard for a group of other Air Scouts to learn aircraft recognition

Swedish Scout bringing drinks ashore

Scout operating winch for gliders
A Senior Scout at the controls of a winch used for launching gliders at the Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scouts learn about science
One American Boy Scouts demonstrates some equipment in a Scout-built project to show another group of Scouts the principles of static electricity

The First Lesson -- sisters with a book
The first lesson -- two little sisters study a book. 19th century

Religion / Hinduism
Brahma with his consort Saraswat. She is the goddess of learning

Nautical Students 1930S
Young men, students at the London School of Engineering and navigation, learning how to take a bearing by sextant to find the position of a ship when out at sea. Date: 1930s

Motherhood Lessons
Young ladies learning how to be good mothers by caring for a baby during a motherhood lesson at the London County Council Handicraft School. Date: early 1930s

School of Sultan Hassan in Turkey
Scene in the school of Sultan Hassan, Turkey. Date: circa 1850

Shakespeares 1st Folio
A professor and two graduate students look at Shakespeares first folio in the library of Durham University. Date: 1950s

Boys Learn Archery 1950S
Boys learning archery at school are guided by their teacher. Date: 1950s

Mettray : Horticulture
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS LEARNING HORTICULTURE Date: circa 1850

Classroom scene, Avenue de Villiers, Paris
A senior class at the Institution Jeanne d Arc, a girls school in the avenue de Villiers, Paris, France. Date: circa 1912

Sixth form lecture theatre, Rosebery County School
6th form lecture theatre at Rosebery County School (probably the one at Epsom, Surrey). Date: 1968

Sixth form lecture theatre
View of a sixth form lecture theatre, with the male lecturer speaking to a full audience of students. Date: 1967

Science lesson, Northfield House School, Leicester
Two boys experimenting with test tubes at Northfield House Junior School, Leicester. Date: 1965

Mary Lawson as a dunce
An amusing study of Mary Lawson posed as a most alluring little dunce. Pictured here in the Sketch in 1931, she was at the time playing Professor Hinzelmanns beautiful daughter

First Steps for the Future Pilot
An ingenious device for teaching beginners the rudiments of controlling an aeroplane in 1931. The little machine which flies in a strong draught of air ejected from the cylinder on the left

Science classroom, South Wales coalfield
A Science classroom in a school connected to a South Wales coalfield. A schoolteacher supervises a group of well behaved boys who are taking part in various chemical experiments

Enchanted Hours by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in dungarees sits on a small, colourful stool engrossed in a good book

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