Sheffield retro: 18 Nostalgic photos, now in colour, show city schooldays in 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s

They say they are the best days of your life.

And we have gone back down memory lane to take a look back at what it was like going to school in Sheffield in the second half of the 20th century.

Back in those days, The Star took all its news photos in black and white. But the world outside was very much in colour.

So we have used technology to transform 18 of our old pictures into colour for the first time.

And you can see them all in the gallery below, which looks at many of the city’s schools as they were, using pictures from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

There are pictures looking back at school life in the city all the way from infant school, into the secondary schools, from the days of blackboards, and registers that teachers filled in with a pen.

Take a look and see how many of the activities you remember, in colour for the first time.

13. Yewland School

Stan Metcalfe, Head of Rural Studies at Yewland Comprehensive School, Sheffield (right), pictured showing a class of boys some of the bees which they keep in hives at the school - 29th June 1970 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers

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14. St. Paul's School, Granville Road

The parents of pupils at St. Paul's School, Granville Road, were invited to go to school themselves to see how science was taught in the modern manner - 20th October 1970 Mary Nester (13) left holds burning magnesium to demonstrate the effects of heat etc. helped by Carmal Nichols (12) right. Picture: Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers