Year 5 have been studying the local area in their history and geography lessons recently. To round off their work, they spent this afternoon walking into Lancaster from school, searching out some of the oldest buildings in Scotforth and linking them to some of the important characters they have been learning about such as James Williamson (senior and junior), Edmund Sharpe, Edward Paley, Thomas and William Storey, Richard Leeming, Mr Brunton and Thomas and Julia Ripley. We compared the geography of Scotforth today with that of the 1840's and 1890's by looking at old maps and pictures. We also looked at evidence from ordinary people of the Victorian era, such as Jimmy Downham who lived on Boundary Street. His house was demolished to build the Pointer Roundabout, but as a child he had played football on the cobbled alley between his road and Railway street, which still exists today. Can you find a photo showing us re-enacting his football playing on those very cobbles mentioned in his diary?