Schools Collection (page 6)

Queen Emma School, Batavia (Jakarta), Java, Indonesia
Queen Emma School in the European District, Batavia (Jakarta), Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1910s

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Rugby School OTC band, c. 1906
Rugby School OTC band posing for a photograph with their instruments in 1906 (possibly 1907). Date: c.1906

Orontes River in Antakya, Turkey
Bridge over Orontes River and school at the river bank in Antakya, Turkey (formerly Syria). Date: circa 1910

Highbury School, Hillcrest, Natal Province, South Africa
Aerial view of Highbury Preparatory School, Hillcrest, Natal Province, South Africa, a private school for boys founded in 1903. Date: 1920s

Royal Caledonian Schools, Bushey, Hertfordshire
A view of the Caledonian Schools, Bushey, originally established in 1815 as the Caledonian Asylum. Date: Date unknown

Woman police officer talking in a school classroom
Woman police officer (Helen Parnell) talking to a group of children in a school classroom. Date: circa 1980s

Abbey Street Ragged Schools, Bethnal Green
A free breakfast is provided to pupils at the Abbey Street Ragged Schools, Bethnal Green. Children sit at trestle tables. A woman sits at a harmonium. Date: late 1800s

Nottingham Blue Coat Schools
A view of the Nottingham Blue Coat Schools and some of its pupils. Date: circa 1905

Seamens Orphanage, Spring Bank, Hull
The Hull Seamens Asylum and Schools was opened in 1866 by the Hull Seamens General Orphan Society. The building was designed by T.H. Wyatt of London. Date: circa 1910

Russell Hill School, Purley
Russell Hill School (formerly the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools), Purley, Surrey

Royal Masonic Home for Boys, Bushey
The main building of the Masonic Schools, Bushey, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1906

Study and fagging at Malvern College
Last minute study and fagging: some of the junior boys doing some hasty revision while one of them cleans a senior boys boots, at Malvern College, an independent school in Worcestershire, England

House dormitory at Malvern College
Senior boys getting ready to go to bed in one of the house dormitories at Malvern College, an independent school in Worcestershire, England. Date: 1958

Ryan YPT-16 -based on their earlier STM sport plane, Ryan built thousands of these pilot trainers, as well as operating training schools

Second Spanish Republic. Escola nova, poble lliure (new school, free people). Poster in Catalan by Carme Millࠩ Tersol (-1999)

Enfermedades de los ojos (Eye diseases). Engraving illustrating major eye diseases: stye, conjunctivitis, squint, pterygium, keratitis. Engraving

Belgian royalty, The Duke of Brabant at Eton, WW1
The Duke of Brabant, later King Leopold III (1901-1983), eldest son of Albert I, King of the Belgians. Pictured as an Eton school boy - he attended Eton College during the First World War when

Officers Training Corps, Eton College, WW1
Eton College Officer Training Corps pictured in 1915. Date: 1915

Studying at Winchester College
Boys studying and making notes outside at Winchester College, a boys public school in Hampshire, England. One boy wears a straw boater and sunglasses. Date: C.1960

Central London District School, Hanwell
Distant view of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. The schools were opened in 1856 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Josef Roth von Limanowa-Lapanow, WW1
Josef Roth von Limanowa-Lapanow (1859-1927), Austro-Hungarian officer, Colonel General from 1918. During the First World War he was division commander

Gymnastics at the Hermitage School, Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1907 by Jean-Ovide Decroly (18711932), a Belgian teacher and psychologist. Date: circa 1920

Firefighters at scene of fire, Langley Park School

Fire at Crowland Road School, Crowland Road, Tottenham N15
A 10 Pump Fire at Crowland Road School, in Crowland Road, Tottenham N15

Cranleigh School
Schoolboys at Cranleigh School, Surrey, 1930s Date: 1930s

School Photo 1900
School group, North Park College, Croydon 1900 Date: 1900

Lodge School, Barbados
Lodge school, Bridgetown, Barbados, 1872 Date: 1872

Astoria Institute for the Education of Young Ladies, Astoria Long Island Date: ca. 1835

Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey
The entrance (left) tot the Shirley Schools on Wickham Road, Shirley. The Schools were established in 1904 by the St Olave Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

J-B De LA Salle
JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE French founder of order, Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes (brothers of Christian schools) Date: 1651 - 1719

Entrance to West London District School, Ashford, Staines
Staff near the entrance to the West London District School on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, opened in 1872 as the West London District School for workhouse children from Fulham

Group of boys at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of boys at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical uniform

Pasadena New Polytechnic High School, California, America

Lambeth Workhouse Schools, Norwood, South London
The parish of Lambeth operated a workhouse school on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. In 1885, the premises were extended with the erection of the New School buildings

St Josephs Industrial School, Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland
St Josephs Industrial School at Ferryhouse, Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, was opened in 1885 for 170 Catholic boys. Industrial Schools, often privately run

Chase Farm Schools, Enfield, Middlesex
The main building of the Chase Farm Schools in Enfield, Middlesex, opened in 1886 by the Edmonton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Hackney Union School, Brentwood, Essex
The Hackney Union School at Brentwood. In 1885 Hackney took over what had been the Brentwood District School, originally set up by the Shoreditch Board of Guardians in 1854 to house pauper children

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Princess Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret Rose at the last of the Duke of Yorks Camps, at Balmoral in August 1939. In 1919, the Princesses father, then Duke of York

Using Boys as Chessmen
Thirty-two pupils from Ramsgate schools act as living chessmen in two matches that form part of Kent Chess Associations Easter Congress

School Certificate
G Percy Carter of the Asylum for Fatherless Children Reedham, Surrey passed " Excellent" in Geometry of the first grade for children in elementary day schools

Classroom Scene
Everyone knows the answer - except the boy in the back row

Playing school
Two children (and their dog) line up their toys to play schools. Date: c.1920

Playing school - dog as a dunce
During a pretend game of playing teachers, a little boy puts his dog in the corner with a dunces cap on its head. Date: c.1920

Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, old school
Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire: the old school and Masters house. On the right are straw-hatted sixth formers and bare-headed douls (i.e. fags from doulos the Greek word for slave). Date: 1953

Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, swimming
Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire: the swimming bath - a very popular institution in the summer term after cricket, tennis or corps parades. Date: 1953

Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, changing classes
Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire: changing classes during morning school. Date: 1953

Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, dormitory
Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire: the eighteen-bedder, the oldest dormitory of the school. It is in the topmost storey of the old school house

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