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	Description: Children from Whalley National School 1906. Schools used photography to reward the virtues they wished to inculcate in the young. In the past, schools placed considerable emphasis on attendance, giving prizes and certificates to those who attended regularly and punctually. View Original Description: The cricket team of St Cross School, Clayton, 1921 The families of these boys could not afford cricket whites. Their parents worked as a greengrocer, a miner in the Clayton pit, and a player for the original Manchester football team View Original Description: Kenyon Hall College, report on D. Madeley, 1912 Compare the range of subjects being taught at this independent school in 1912 with those for the council school over 20 years later View Original Description: Swedish Drill, Hague St School, Miles Platting, 1911 Drill was the favourite form of physical education in Victorian and Edwardian schools. It was frequently conducted in the school yard, and required no special equipment or facilities. View Original Description: The Nicholls Hospital School Cricket Club, 1916 Note that all the boys are wearing white shirts and striped trousers to the knee View Original