SCHOOLS were very different when this photograph was taken in around 1900.

The evocative image, which shows the Friends School in Rawdon, is from the archives of Aireborough Historical Society.

Archivist Carlo Harrison said: "It is plain to see how things have changed, it looks like three teachers presumably the main one sat at the desk. Pupils well behaved sat at long desks, four pupils to a desk.

"Instructions in chalk on a blackboard, gas mantle for lighting, no school uniform as we know it today and it looks as if they are writing with ink dip pens which is an art in itself.

"No form of heating is visible in the photograph and Rawdon then as now gets a bit chilly in the winter.

"On the wall is written 'Be good, Do Good' a quote from John Ruskin who died in 1900. Ruskin by coincidence was educated at home not at school until the age of twelve."

Nearly a century later four-year-old Mateus Domingos was photographed protecting the public from a fearsome dragon. The picture was taken in 1994 at the St George's Day Church Fayre at Ilkley Parish Church.

FIRST World War sentences by Richard Thackrah:

Solitude on the Moors: a comment penned by a cyclist after a trip over the Moors. 'Winter is never solitary on the Yorkshire Moors and there is a comforting roundness and benignity of aspect on the moorland’.

Advert: 'Lord John Sanger’s Royal Circus and Menagerie will be at Leeds Road, Ilkley on 17 June featuring the important and exclusive of The Great Russian Cossack Troupe, and pure white twin horses and wonderful performing sea lions’.

A comment by Ilkley Council. "It was decided a year ago to reduce the amount of street watering in the interests of the economy. It has given rise to a number of complaints, but one has to be tolerant in wartime."