“A spacious Playground and Croquet-lawn have been provided for the recreation of the Pupils…” —Northern Echo, 8 January 1872
This image is not real. But it is rooted. Digitally refreshed to imagine what once was: young women in corseted dresses, mallets in hand, playing croquet under the watchful symmetry of Clairmont’s stone facade.
No spectacle. No proposal. Just a civic whisper. A moment of recreation, framed by discipline and dignity.
Clairmont’s Croquet Lawn, 1880s—Refreshed by AI