PUPILS and staff in Cross Roads re-enacted a 100-year-old photograph outside their school to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A photo understood to show Lees Primary children stood outside their school on Armistice Day in 1918 had been passed to the school by a member of the public, who had been impressed by the school’s recent remembrance display.

The poignant, eye-catching display featured poppies decorated by the pupils and a silhouetted figure of a soldier.

Lees Primary administrator Sharon Treece explained: “This man who’d seen our display told us his father, grandmother and great uncle had all attended Lees Primary.

“His great uncle served during the war and was killed in France on October 13 1918, aged 21.

“He e-mailed us the old photo, which is believed to have been taken outside the school on Armistice Day 1918. We hadn’t seen it before.

“We decided to re-create the picture after our own school remembrance service on Friday November 9. Although a small extension has been added at the back, the front of our school has hardly changed in the 100 years since the first photograph was taken.”

She said the November 2018 photo was taken from across the main road by headteacher Ed Whitehead. All children and staff present at Lees Primary that day took part.

Mrs Treece added the school may try and get both the old and new pictures framed and put on display.