You guys leave my train set alone.
You guys leave my train set alone.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
Have a look at the teacher in the Boaler St photograph in GeorgiePorgies post and the teacher in the origional photograph and tell me there is not a resemblance!
Many thanks to everyone for your suggestions, cleaned up version (Bobed), photo links, art work (Dazza and Jackie) and wit .
Boaler St does seem to be the closest match so far, though it doesn't have 3 bricks for the freize nor the lower stonework that Dazza pointed out - so it seems the search must go on.
I think the photo may have been taken slightly later than I first thought and could be around 1911 - if only they really had put the name of the school on the board like Chatsworth, Boaler St and of course St Joseph's
Ah well I live in hope
It does have the frieze around the window the same as your pic,you have to enlarge the givenpic to see it.
In all fairness this identical in building,photo shot of the kids layout,Teacher and attire ect,ect.
What you have to dismiss is that a building might be different in some aspects of its architecture due to the nature of shortfalls in size,area and placement.
I'm not saying it is the school but I'd give you good odds it was.
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p.s see the plant pot in the window of yours? well its in the bottom left corner of mine.
Compere these two!
Samp? I do believe a trip to specsavers is in order.
Having looked at both of the photographs of these women I do not believe they have any real resemblance, other then the fact that they have a similar hair style (Being up that is) and are wearing similar etire, which I'm pretty sure all teachers would of worn in that era.
Also I do believe that the school building from George and the OP do look similar however there are a number of differences which lead me to believe they are not the same building.
And by the way, the plant? Seriously? That is what you are using to solidify your argument?
I dont know if anyone else agrees with me or maybe its just me.
I hope you have some better luck with identifying the school and I shall see if I can find anything out for you
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me try to identify the school in my photo.
Because of a number of similarities Boaler St is top of my list so far but the differences with my photo (e.g. B St windows are 4 panes wide with 2 x 2 panes opening together not 3 with just middle pane opening, has lower brick work not stone, freize only 1 brick deep not 3, school name written on chalkboard vs no name on mine etc) leave some doubt in my mind.
I know it's a probably a long shot but when I get the chance I'm going to go to the LRO to see what records they have for Boaler St. Maybe I can find out if my gdad was registered as a pupil there. Does anyone know if the LRO holds anything that would help me?
Tilly,
Where did your grandfather live, or the family live in the 1901 census; what street exactly? We may be able to narrow it down to a small number of schools from there? I'd do this before going the LRO.
Daz
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
Hi Daz,
he was being fostered in Pinnington Cottages in Wavertree at 10mths old in 1901. He's not still with the foster family in 1911 and family rumour has it that he may at some point have gone to live with his birth mother once she married in Edge Hill/Low Hill area but have been unable to find her marriage so don't have a name she might be under.
Thanks Tilly
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p.s. Pinnington Cottages was just off the High St nr Grange Terrace. Nearest school to that would have been Holy Trinity
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
Yeah - found his foster family living elsewhere but no signs of him at all in the census anywhere. Thanks so much for the list of schools - guess it's time I got the maps out
Where did this photo come from? usually in those days photograhs of school assemby classes had the photographers name and buisness stamped on the back,this was common right upto the 60's?
For those quiet moments Tilly, when you have nothing to do...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....photographers/
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