Wigan Album

Just noticed a few girls to the right.. Every lad has a cap on. I can remember at the T.L.S. you had to wear your school cap up to and including the third form and woe betide you if you got caught outside of school without your cap on .. BRING BACK SCHOOL CAPS..

Ron,bring back School Discipline,but there again Discipline begins at Home or it did when we were growing up.

When little lads wore 'over coats' or gaberdine macs and pea caps! The over coats always seemed to be too short -as they grew out of them so fast. The picture looks very 50's.

I think this is more like 40's or 30's. Look carefully at the overcoats. None of us would have been caught dead in a coat like those in the 50's.

Please note ! All the lads are wearing short pants, when i started at TLS in 1953 i wore long pants, so i would date it in the 40s or pre 40s, another 'clue' is the teachers hat,i dont remember any of my teachers in the mid to late 40s and definately the 50s wearing a hat such as that, definately not the female ones !!!.

I agree to differ about the little lads in overcoats in the fifties. I am not saying the picture was taken then. I am older than my brother and he definitely wore one in the fifties. Children wore what they were told then and no arguing!! They dressed like mini adults.

Looking at the man in the hat, I would say early to mid thirties. By the way, he has a look of Stan Laurel...