This class at Essendon North State School shows a mix of pupils whose families are doing ok, and send their children to school clean and neatly dressed, and other families whose children are grubby and unkempt, and in some cases looking abused. Some of their fathers would have been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder after the war, potentially exacerbated by unemployment and alcohol abuse. See other photos from Essendon North at the
Time Travellers website. Photo courtesy of Greg Manderson. Please get in touch if you can identify anyone in the photo.
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