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MANY people have the view that education 50 or 60 years ago was a dry affair with rows of desks, lectures from stern disciplinarian teachers, everything done by the book.

We hope the pictures in this week’s All Our Yesterdays supplement go some way to dispelling this idea.

We’ve found trainee choristers and cooks, dressmakers and woodworkers, violinists and chemists at our local schools.

There might have been a fair amount of Latin declension and stuffy algebra, but life in school in the 1950s and 1960s wasn’t anywhere near as dull as our children and grandchildren imagine!

For more nostalgia images clcik here to visit our special nostalgia picture section with thousands of pictures across dozens of galleries showing all aspects of Huddersfield's past.