Audley Range School Blackburn (c1904)

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Category:

Education

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• BFI
• Edwardian
• Lifestyle
• Audley
• Range
• School
• Blackburn
• Lancashire
• children
• schools
• education

[spacecowboy22]

dis? skew?

shame that your modern literature teaching circles didnt rub off on you.

[thebailif247]

Sad how BLackburn has become a Muslim groto,the lucky ones moved to clitheroe,whalley but now they two are getting Muslims,and a Mosque very sad indeed.

[warp13]

@LokiV -why?

[Anangasnake]

10 years later many of those lads will have marched off to war.

[LokiV]

although these movies are good i cant help feeling sad sometimes.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

Thats me fifth from the left the slightly smaller boy Can actually remember this photograph being taken .Recall my mother buying me a new cellulose collar and ironing my shirt heating the iron over the fire. those were the days.

[QzRR]

God bless Blackburn? Or..

[ravenfires]

are you sure this is Blackburn ,they all seem to have white faces, last time i drove through blackburn i never saw a white face..

[thetoymaker]

This is fascinating. Thank you so much for opening a window into the past.

[Crecybowman]

Lots of clogs! Brilliant!

[amisja]

My Mum went to that school! It's a community centre now. It's amazing to look at these children. I am absolutely positive their descendants are still in Blackburn. Bless em all.