IT’S back to school this week in our weekly glimpse at the way we were.
Today, we step back more than 60 years and take a look at pupils from St Joseph’s Primary School, Blackburn, in 1952.
Here they are in the flagged school playground in front of the school building, which was made sooty and grimy from the smoke pouring out of factory chimneys.
In the middle is the rather serious-looking teacher Miss Eccleston and around her, of the large class of 41 pupils,.
We have only a handful of names for the pupils that are pictured here.
On the back row first left is Lewis Ainsworth,; fourth left, John Chambers and fourth right Jim Harrison.
On the second row from the back Alan Forrester is fourth right, while on the fourth right on the front row is Peter Southworth.
There’s still another 36 to identify – maybe you can add some names of your own?
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