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Downing pens, they went on strike, walking out of the school on Livingston Road and forming up by a wall across the street. As the headmaster and his staff returned to school they were shocked to find themselves being berated by their own pupils. Demands from the ad hoc picket line included an extra day off a week and longer playtimes. The students, aged between ten and 14, were at the forefront of a movement sweeping through industrialised England. School pupils were following the lead of their elders with miners, dockers and textile workers all taking industrial action in the decade up to 1910.