Iām joining Becky in her October Square Photo Challenge over at The Life of B. The rules of the challenge are simple: most photos must be square and fit the theme word Past. Look for #PastSquares. This month we’re travelling back in time in the western Queensland town of Miles and surrounds. We’ll explore the local area and join in the festivities at the Miles Back to the Bush Festival.
Miles Historical Village
The one room school building at the historical village was transported 20 kilometres from the tiny settlement of Drillham.
In 1886, it wasn’t just unruly students who were expected to obey the rules at school.
The Eternal Traveller 
LOL at the thought of anyone going to teach in their bathing suit, or attempting a bustle of over 10 inches!
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Well, you never know what might happen. š
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I’ll have to be excused. I have no bloomers for cycling.
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No bloomers and no bicycle – Jo, you are behind the times. š
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These are funny – possibly my favourite is ‘marriage or other unseemly behaviour by women teachers’ being a cause for instant dismissal. Who’d have thought that marriage was unseemly! š š
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It was like that up until the 1970s. If women got married they had to resign. It sounds so primitive now.
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I think the rule here changed a little bit before that, but my mum had to give up work when she married in the 1950’s.
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Ah, the days of being graded on how you behaved in class. In grade school, there was a grade on our report card.
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It was the same when I was at primary school. Of course I was an A student. š
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Ha, ha, made me laugh!
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Especially wearing your bloomers – how rude! š
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They may make us laugh now but I can’t imagine having to abide by some of those rules at the time. A young woman or man having to decide between marriage and helping children get an education…that had to be hard.
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I suspect most young women just got married and gave away their jobs. Shame for the communities.
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Interesting that marriage is classed as ‘unseemly behaviour’ š But I’ve seen similar lists for US teachers from that period and I’m pretty sure teachers here in the UK weren’t allowed to get married either, and in many other jobs too. It was assumed that once you married your job was to keep house and tend to your husband’s needs, and you couldn’t do another job outside the home properly!
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Thank goodness that way of thinking has gone. š
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Oh, my, those rules for women were harsh! I’m surprised they were allowed to teach at all!
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Only until they got married. š¦
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Well that was the same here until around the 1930s and even later in the civil service!
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We laugh at those old-fashioned rules, but how different life would be if those kinds of rules were still part of our lives. They definitely reflect the Victorian era, and similar rules existed in the USA, too.
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I think they’re a bit extreme though. Fancy not being allowed to wear your bloomers when you went cycling. LOL!!
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That’s a risque thought. Have you ever tried on bloomers like that? I had some with an 1860s outfit I bought for Civil War events. They are very strange feeling.
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