Hidden Lives Revealed. A virtual archive - children in care 1881-1981 * Image of handwritten text

Sporting life

This section has 10 photographs of sports teams and of children playing sport.
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A holiday cricket match

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Title: A holiday cricket match
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Boxing in the 1940s

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Heywood Home football eleven

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St Mark's Home swimmers

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Learning to swim

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Title: Learning to swim
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Gymnastics at Leicester

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 Dumb bell drill

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"Arms forward stretch." Exercises in the garden of one Toddler Home

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Sampford Peverell: Bone and Muscle

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A game of cricket at St Martin's Home

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Title: A game of cricket at St Martin's Home
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