schoolboys

Yes indeed....the very thought when I first saw this pic...what an amazing array of diffferent caps and hats and an interesting photograph too. Thank you. Stuart.

Stuart You're very welcome!

looks like the photographer posed them perfectly, then left that empty chair in the foreground which is distracting....himmm

It's actually the empty chair that really makes this for me.

An earlier Lord Clonbrock (I don't know his number, but born 1807)., played 5 first class cricket matches, at least twice for England. His first-class batting average was 1.62. A gentleman rather than a player. www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/11645.html

I had no idea this game used to involve actual wheelbarrows. When did wheelbarrow races change to using children walking on their hands?

Well, they probably phased out the barrows after the first several bloody impalements on those rigid slalom spikes . . . .

Probably phased out when people no longer owned wheelbarrows!

Previously ... The electric lamp and telegraph poles might help with dating.

yes it's Derry and it's the monument to George Walker

We have seen a Clonbrock photo from Derry before. In the comments on the below, I noted that CLON2084 nearby in the catalogue is in Derry, between 1902-1919. The sequence 2080 to 2085 are all around Derry.

Dark clouds over Derry

O Mac It's strange after looking at so many Lawrence images where they carefully photoshop the sky out of the image to see clouds in this one. I remember Hinde postcards from when I was a kid, and the sky would be a ridiculous primary blue with fake white clouds...