Roses in my little school yard Cherbourg Provisional School c1930s

Cyril Vock was the teacher at the Cherbourg Provisional School from August 1934 unti it closed in March 1941 due to low attendance. His collection of photographs gives an insight of settlement life in the late 1930s.

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