3-085-829 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Barring-Out Day, 1898. 'It was an old custom in the North Country on certain festivals, one of which was Shrove Tuesday, for schoolchildren to get their master out of the school on some pretext or another, and then to refuse to readmit him unless they were granted a holiday, By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., New Bond Street. From the picture by Ralph Hedley'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.