Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 July 1932

Tickled To Death

Treat In Store For Broomhill Children

Look at the expressions of these children. They are “tickled to death.” What are they smiling at? Next Thursday they will see the sea for the first time.

The children attend Broomhill Council School, and since et Easter have been putting their pennies into a savings club for a summer outing. Altogether a party of fifty will make the trip to Skegness, but the fourteen in this picture have never been to the sea-side before.

The arrangements have been made by the new headmaster, Mr. G. H. Illsey , (left), and he and his assistant, Mr. .J. Wade (right) will accompany the children.

Mr. Illsley told a representative of the “South Yorkshire Times” that all the children in his school were keen to go, but comparatively few parents had been able to afford it. By a very great effort fifty children had been able to save four shillings each—the bare fare.

There was nothing left for catering, but the children will take their own food. The ‘bus will leave Broombill at 6-30 next Thursday, and it is their intention to make a big day of it. The outing has been almost the sole topic of conversation among the children and many of them have scarcely been able to sleep for thinking about it.

Mr. Illsley said that on taking over at Broomhill he was amazed to find little the children had travelled, even in their own district. Two boys of twelve and one of eleven have never been in a railway train, and they have never made the journey to Barnsley, which is only five miles away. He said the teachers were glad of the opportunity of giving the children a treat, if only for the diligence they have displayed in recent months. During the past few weeks they have started a school library, which now contains something like 150 books, and now aids to their knowledge of local geography they have acquired copies of “Landmarks of South Yorkshire.,” recently published by this office. Mr. Illsley showed our representative some remarkable examples of bookbinding accomplished by the scholars.

The children in the picture are: Barbara Ashcroft (7). Joyce Malpass, (9), Mary Barker (7), Eddie Clarke (7), Sam Moore (9), Basil Godfrey (7), Colin Ashcroft (9), Billy Barker (7), Billy Blackner (7). John Blackner (111), Hack Hilton (9). Wm. Malpass (19), Albert Barker (11), Reuben Barker (12).