IT’S rare such old photographs are so clear but this image captures 1938 in a Huddersfield classroom.

The school is Lindley C of E Infants School and was sent to us by one of the pupils on the photograph Derek Sharples (back, fourth left).

Derek now lives in Kirkheaton and has shown a remarkable ability by remembering all but three of his classmates.

They photo shows (back, from left) Miss Schofield, Sheila Goldthorpe, Derek Rollinson, Derek Sharples, Tommy Liversedge, Derek Walker, Roy Powell, Arnold Sykes, Brian Smith, Michael Jarret, Margaret Thorpe and (middle, from left) Joan Taylor, Vera Pitchforth, unknown, Jean Battye, Sheila Nestor, Sheila Holmes, Margaret Boothroyd, Dorothy Bates, unknown, Molly Sutcliffe and (front, from left) Colin Eastwood, John Brett, Eric Bell, Colin Russell, unknown and Trevor Williams.