In my emails this morning was this from Alf King.
Alt writes " I have been scanning a number of old photographs of my family and in amongst these I came across a School Leavers Card issued by the Hyde education Committee to my mother when she left Leigh St Senior school at the age of 14 in April 1941. I thought that you and some of your readers might be interested in it and the advice" that it contains, which I have attached.