This photograph of Bradford schoolchildren and adults at a railway station looks as though it was taken during the Second World War.

The children at the front of the picture are perhaps sitting on luggage, waiting to be evacuated away from the threat of German bombing.

Judging by the advertisement for a certain Yorkshire newspaper visible behind the group, the photograph was taken either at Forster Square Station or the now defunct Exchange Station, where the Crown Court building is.

The photograph was taken in the spring of 1945 when the war was about to end with Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender.

It was sent to Remember When? by retired RAF Air Vice-Marshal Brian Lewis ‘Boz’ Robinson and shows pupils of Marshfields Primary School, Little Horton, about to go on a trip by steam train to Glasgow.

They look more like young adults than children, doubtless the effect of living through six years of war. Boz Robinson is the serious-looking boy fourth from the left in the second row.

He said: “My only vivid memory of that trip was of travelling by train through Ribblesdale and across Ribblehead viaduct. I was nine years old at that time.

“Glasgow was not very inspiring and we were all glad to get back to Bradford.”

Boz Robinson, now 76, went on to Bradford Grammar School. His service duties took him to Germany, Canada, NATO headquarters in Brussels and Moscow.