Figure 1.--Here we see childrenn all dressed up and linedup at the Market Harbourgh railway station, we believe in the 1910s. The boys and girls are separated. Notice the girls' festive hats. The 1910s was the last decade that girls wore such elaborate hats. It appears to be a kid's railway outing. Unfortuntely we do not have any details. We are not sure where they are headed.

Children for the most part were involved in family outings and excursions. But there were also groups excursions. These of course were mostly for adult group, but we see some cvhildren on ecursion, but we are not sure just what the groups were omn some of the photographs we have found. School and church groups seem the most likely, especially in the 20th century. There were alsp social groups like coop societies and labor unions which may have organized excurios and various events. There werecexcursions before the rilways, but the railways gretly inmcreased the opportunities for group excursions. These were limited in the 19th century, but became more common in he 20th century,especially school excursions. We also begin to see youth group excursuion, primarily Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. We see countless school and youth through groips trapsing through museums that began to open in the mid-19th century. The Victoria and Albert (1852) was not the first nuseum, but it was a notable early museum arising from the Great Exhibition.

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