Figure 1.--The school here is the Holton Road Boys School, a primary in Hartlepoolis a seaside and port town in the northern county of Durham, datig back to the early medieval era. The town grew up around a monastary. It was a large cabinet card with ruling showing the standard 1A class, meaning boys about 6 years old. The portrait was taken in 1924. The boys are not wearing suits which was common in the 1910s, but mostly jeseys (sweaters). Some of the boys are wearing sailor suits. The class is notable for all the boys wearing longish-cut short pants, most with knee socks and high-top shoes.

English primary schools in villages generally went by the name of the village. City schools were different. They tended to take on the name of the street or road. This worked in England because the cities were not laid out on the grid pattern, thus streets and roads tended to be shorter than in America. The school here is the Holton Road Boys School. Village schools tended to be coeducational because there werre not enough children for two separate schools. In towns and cities, single gender schools were the standard, but this had begun to change even before World War II. The school here is the Holton Road Boys School, a primary in Hartlepoolis a seaside and port town in the northern county of Durham, datig back to the early medieval era. The town grew up around a monastary. It was a large cabinet card. School photography was still mostly cabinet cards, mostly the new style mounts. We do not yet see individual portrais. The cabinet cards were done in muted colors with ruling. We see a standard 1A class, meaning boys about 6 years old. The portrait was taken in 1924. The boys are not wearing suits which was common in the 1910s, but mostly jerseys (sweaters). Some of the boys are wearing sailor suits. The class is notable for all the boys wearing longish-cut short pants, most with knee socks and high-top shoes.

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