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A photograph of three schoolboys at the end of the 19th century

Date: 1898. Catalogue reference: COPY 1/436, Part 2

A photograph of three schoolboys at the end of the 19th century. They are wearing caps, rough woollen jackets, vests and knee-pants or rolled trousers but they have no shoes. From the beginning of compulsory education, there were always boys prepared to 'mooch off' and take an unauthorised holiday.

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