Ravensthorpe School c1900

The Head (and only teacher) initially was Susannah Hollowell a Northamptonshire girl from Braefield-on-the Green.  She was the Ravensthorpe schoolmistress from 1860 to 1902 and married a tailor, Henry Billing in 1878.  The older girl on the right of the picture is their daughter, Elsie May, who joined her mother at the school as Pupil Teacher when she was 16 in 1900, when the picture was taken.