Figure 1.--Here we see the Sefton Park School, we think about 1930. We notice schools with that name in Bristol and Liverpool. We are not sure which it was, but it was ckearly a city school. We assumed it was a gurl's school until we found images of boys' classes at the same school. There is no doubt that it is the same school because we see the same bavkground abnd principal in both pgotographs. Click on the image to see a boys class at about the same time.

The ample photographic record allows up to follow seoaration and coeducation trends in some detail. We do nit have a lot of images from the mid-19th century, but by the late-19th century as school photography had become well established, we can follow seoaration policies in sime detrail. And we can see that most Engkish bchikldren attebded sunhfke-0gender schiols. When we speak of coeducation we primarily are talking about separate schools for boys and girls. But there are different ways of seprating the children besides having an entitely different school which is often not the optimal arrangement. Having two separate schools means that the children will have longer walk to school as a larger catchment area is needed if only boys or girls are admitted. And at the time children walked to school. And loing walks were not suitanle for the youngest children. There were various ways of separating the children. Even in primary schools with boys and girls, however, there were efforts to keep the boys and girls separate. It seems that school administratoes were doing evrry ting they coul to keep the children sepoatae. This included separate classes and separate playgrounds (school yards). And even if the children are located in the same classroom, there were ways of separating them. At first it was quite common to seat the children beyond the nursery school age apart. The normal way of doing this was on different sides of the classroom.

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