They say that school days are the best days of your life, but that depends on your desire to sit through double maths on Friday afternoon.
From dreaded school dinners of boiled cabbage accompanied with lumpy, cold gravy skin, to the delights of doing PE in your vest and pants because you'd forgotten your sports kit, school days were memorable. Friendships forged outside the headteacher's study door or behind the bike sheds can last a lifetime - school really was an education.
Enjoying kickabout in the playground pupils of St Georges School, Barrack Road Northampton, in April 15, 1970
Pupils testing a rather watery-looking soup at Duston Secondary Modern School, Northampton in December 1959
Pupils of All Saints School, Northampton show headmaster Nogger Norton their models in July 6, 1959
Sports day obstacle race at the Open Air Recovery School, Northampton, on July 2, 1964
Enjoying kickabout in the playground pupils of St Georges School, Barrack Road Northampton, in April 15, 1970
Pupils from Abington Vale Secondary School, Northampton, off on a school trip to Austria, February 13, 1969
