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English school uniform: individual schools -- Burton Grammar School
Individual English Schools -- Burton Leonard Anglican Primary School
Figure 1.--Some company in Englandin theearly 20th century went around Britain taking photographs in cities and villages for sale as postcards. This is one of these photographs taken in Burton Leonard, a village in Yorkshire. Notice that virtually all the girls wear white pinafores. We at first thought that the photograph was taken outside the village church. We thought it was done simply because it was the most impressive building in the village. We believe that if they were attending church, the girls would not have worn their pinafores. A British reader expalins our confusion. Thus is the village school, a rather imopressive one, but a school never-the-less. The churcg can be seen at the far right in the background. Click on the image for a fuller explanation.
Burton Leonard is a village in Yorkshire. We note a substantial Church of England (Anglican) school. The children are posed outside the school. An English company took photographs like this throughout the country. They were than produced as post cards for local sales. The girls are wearing tams and pinafores, common schoolwear at the time. They are posed outside the dchool, arathger imposing structure for a village school. We at first thought bit was the village church.
The church can be seen in the back ground at the extreme right. The church was rebuilt in 1878 and paid for by the local land owner. The school was probably built at about the same time. The school shows a brick foundation and regular shaped stones blocks built on top. A British reader tells us, "The children look to be attending a school function which I think is connected to a traditional religious - community annual event."
