A classroom through the decades

In pursuit of Leonard Brooks (GA President 1951), I contacted the archivists / historians of William Ellis School and received this amazing sequence of images of the same classroom from Chris Willey, for which I am very grateful.
Here's the room, with some images showing how it changed, or didn't very much, over the years, along with some of the teachers who occupied the room for a while. 

I always remember that even if I have been at a school a long time (I spent 20 years in one school) I am only really 'passing through' in the longer term, and if I went back now some years later (as I have) most people wouldn't have a clue who I was.

Here's the room on Allcroft Road at William Ellis School in 1929.

Fast forward to 1939, with a teacher identified as V. C. Spary

Fast forward to 1953 and Mr. J. Jackson was in the room.



And here in 1953 is Mr. A P Smith helping a student in the Allcroft Road classroom.




The images have a credit to the London Metropolitan Archive apart from the final image which is has the copyright Ian Lyons.

The London Metropolitan Archive is a huge resource, and I need to delve into this a little to find some images that might be lurking there of former GA Presidents.

The image section of the site is called COLLAGE.



I did some preliminary searches to see whether I could find more similar classroom images, and ended up finding quite a few.
Some geography classrooms here.

1925: On the Geography Classroom

Back in 1925, Miss Celia Evans, from Barry shared her thoughts on how the Geography classroom should be laid out. I'm not sure my current room shares this specification in any aspect other than its aspect: it faces south. I like the requirements: a balcony, plenty of storage for plasticine, plenty of visual spaces - backed with green baize etc. Check out the full specification the JSTOR link.



Reference
Evans, Celia. “A MEMORANDUM ON THE SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY ROOM.” The Geographical Teacher, vol. 13, no. 3, 1925, pp. 233–236. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40556270.

1924: A Geography Classroom

Looks good to me... 

Although what about those who say that too many things on display in a classroom distract students and stop them learning?

Source: “A GEOGRAPHY CLASS ROOM.” The Geographical Teacher, vol. 12, no. 6, 1924. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40555157.