School pageant day, a grandmother in every seat in the front row clutching a furled parasol and a pocketbook full of horehound candies for later. Right around The Great War judging by the dated ones. Taken from two albums currently up for bid with Toovey’s Auctions and taken from their website.

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Dancing around the maypole on May 1st, the boys wearing smocks, hats and dark stockings. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Dancing around the maypole on May 1st. A different school with older children. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Nursery Rhymes pageant parade entry. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Children (and their teacher over on the far right) gathered to be in a pageant or be the audience for one. In various costumes including clowns and nurses. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house so presumably British or one of their then colonies. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Forest play, Stopham House August 23rd, 1916. Stopham House is located in England. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
“Daisy Dell” Wiston School, November: 1919. Location not given as a Google search isn’t turning up a current or long closed Wiston School. But a British auction house so presumably British. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
After Battle of Hastings. Cast members in a Battle of Hastings pageant. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house so presumably British. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Schoolboy participants in a pageant that involved longbows. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house so presumably British. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not given. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Domestic life in the Stone Age. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house so presumably British. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not legible. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards
Christmas tableau or pageant. Year not given but the dated photographs are from ca. 1916-1918. Location not given but a British auction house so presumably British. From one of two albums containing approximately 165 postcards and photographs of social history interest relating to children and youths performing at plays or visiting pageants and events that are up for bid in the same lot. Photographer not legible. Image © Toovey’s 2017-2025. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/596717/two-albums-containing-approximately-165-postcards

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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