These youngsters from Helme Junior and Infants School, Meltham, joined teacher Mrs Linda Tebb on a trip back to the 17th century.
They saw at first hand how people coped with life during the reign of the Stuarts and Oliver Cromwell.
A party of 30 children, accompanied by teachers, parents and friends, spent a day at Clarke Hall, in Wakefield, dressed in appropriate costume.
Headmaster Mr Stuart Hoyle said: “The experience taught the children how different life was in those days. They lived history by recreating the atmosphere of the 17th century.”
Times were hard in those days and they were for Mr Hoyle, who played the part of a consumptive for the day.
The day out was one of many activities in the last few weeks before children broke up for the summer holidays in 1987.
Many schools were busy joining in to raise money for the £500,000 Examiner Bodyscanner Appeal, as this week’s All Our Yesterdays shows.
It seemed children from all the dozens of towns, villages and districts
served by the paper all wanted to join in to buy the equipment for the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
The life-saving bodyscanner service opened at the infirmary in January 1988.
The £500,000 needed was raised in just 262 days.
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