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Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
The wonders of nature are probed during a lesson in flower-dissecting, under the guiding eye of Mr. Eric Pearson (Biology master).Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, November 1959 Views: 2053 |
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Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Led by Stuart Bennett (Captain), right, the cross-country team returns from a practice run around the nearby country-side.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, November 1959 Views: 1841 |
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Burnley Grammar School
Engineers of tomorrow, under the eye of Mr. J. H. Morton (Metal Work instructor), use a micrometer on a lathe. From left, David Riley, David Yanik and Colin Chapman.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, December 1959 Views: 1734 2 |
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Burnley Grammar School
There's pleny of room in the modern-styled gymnasium for muscle developing, where the boys are supervised by Mr. R. Parry, the physical education instruction.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, December 1959 Views: 15850 62 |
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Early Motoring
A young David Pilkington test drives an old Austin.Source: Personal Collection of David Devine, Wigan Views: 2051 |
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Using a Safety Harness
Driver and passengers fitted with safety harness. Such harness can often protect a car's occupants from what would otherwise have been a fatal accident.Source: Country Life, December 4, 1958 Views: 2103 |
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Not everyone wants to watch...
...jumping, even at a horse show. While the rest of the crowd were wasting their time applauding the entrants this youngster found much more important work filling all the empty mineral bottles and tea containers he could find.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, August 1958 Views: 1746 |
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Car crash, Manchester
Strangely enough, although five were injured, no one was killed in this 1957 pile-up which took place on Princess Parkway, Northenden, Manchester.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, September 1958 Views: 2464 |
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Fulwood Counry Secondary School
Instruction from the expert, Miss Hilary Peet, physical education mistress, who plays netball for Lancashire and who is also a member of the County swimming team.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, November 1958 Views: 2558 1 |
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Fleetwood Grammar School
In the bright and cheery domestic science room, the girls are taught the art of cooking and other kitchen "chores" by Miss P. Green (third from right).Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, July 1958 Views: 2064 |
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Railway Street, Brierfield, 1957
Once a bustling thoroughfare packed with shoppers. Nowadays the traders find it tough going, but they feel the corner has been turned.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, May 1957 Views: 1966 |
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Manchester Ship Canal
A view of No. 9 Dock, looking towards the city centre. The large building at the head of this dock is No. 2 Grain Elevator, which has a storage capacity of 40,000 tons. The dock is equipped with the most up-to-date cargo-handling facilities in the country.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, October 1957 Views: 1893 |
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Manchester Ship Canal
The pride of the Manchester Ship Canal Co - the Queen Elizabeth II Dock, the largest oil dock in Britain. Opened by the Queen in January, 1954, it covers an area of nineteen acres, and is both longer and wider than Trafalgar Square.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, October 1957 Views: 1634 |
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Women's Cricket
No wonder they were smiling. This was the Bolton team after they had crushed a Preston women's eleven by a fine display of all-round cricket.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, August 1956 Views: 1523 |
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Women's Cricket
The Preston team had spent a busy time in the field as Bolton's opening pair rattled up a stand of eighty-six. But a cup of tea worked wonders and cheered them up.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, August 1956 Views: 1343 |
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Women's Cricket
Ninety-seven for five - and Bolton declare. Dorothy Pilling, who also plays for the county eleven, and Doreen Howarth return to the pavilion with the Preston fielders.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, August 1956 Views: 1533 |
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'Grandmother Lancashire'
Grandmother Eliza Ridgeway, 92 years old from the Bacup area, cleaning a rug in shawl and pinny.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, July 1956 Views: 2122 |
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Test Match Victories
Test Match Victories may be won on the 'playing fields' off the Caledonian Road in North London, but it would be better for the children if the stumps were set in green fields.Source: Picture Post. August 7, 1954 Views: 2355 |
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Play Street
Forbidding traffic to use the streets helps to save life and limb, but the provision of some forty play streets in London is no real solution to the problem.Source: Picture Post. August 7, 1954 Views: 2232 |
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Skipping
Paving stones are a poor substitute for the green grass of real playing fields. Railings are useful for holding one end of the skipping rope, but passers-by interrupt the game.Source: Picture Post. August 7, 1954 Views: 2595 |
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Orrell Blacksmith, 75 year old Sam Cadman
The last of the Orrell Blackmiths is seventy-five-year-old Sam Cadman, who is gamely carrying on the home industry in a small smithy behind his cottage in Church Street.Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, Spring 1954 Views: 2108 |
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At the Coal Face
A miner hard at work in 1951.Source: Festival of Britain Guide, 1951 Views: 2675 |
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Living Room
A typical living room of the early 1950s.Source: Festival of Britain Guide, 1951 Views: 3036 |
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The Quiet Game of 'Tig'
"And O-U-T spells OUT". Counting-out rhymes are often relics of tribal mumbo-jumbo, magical rites like casting lots. Sometimes they imitate numerals of forgotten languages.Source: Picture Post. April 8, 1950 Views: 2535 |
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