THIS week's trip down Memory Lane takes us to a picturesque village near Selby just two years after the First World War ended.

The picture is of pupils at Stillingfleet School, the slate being held by a girl at the centre of the front row showing it was taken in 1920.

The school was opened in 1858 and served the village until its closure in 1962. Children now attend nearby Naburn School.

The former school, overlooking the green, has now been made into living accommodation, while the adjacent head teacher's house is now called The Old School House.

There was a school in Stillingfleet before 1858. It was at the top of Church Hill, opposite the Cross Keys public house, which was demolished not so long ago. The pre-1858 school was headed by a woman called Polly Spencer, noted for her spelling lessons, who charged her scholars one penny a week.

Updated: 11:58 Wednesday, June 25, 2003