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Garry Wroe · 07-17-2011, 01:56 AM

Another street child ...

And a London slum court, date and precise location unknown ...

Garry Wroe · 07-08-2011, 01:19 PM

That's most kind of you, Zodiac. And I certainly agree with you with regard to the power of some of these images, speaking as they do with an eloquence that goes beyond the written word.

Thanks once again.

Zodiac · 07-08-2011, 03:07 AM

Hi Gary,

I just can't seem to find adequate words to express my thanks to you for providing us with these photographs, they are frozen moments in time and yet so full of life in all its aspects, good and ill, happy and sad, joy and pain. I often feel that photography, along with astronomy, is the only authentic means of "time-travel" or at the very least being genuinely able to see back in time that we possess, we really should treasure it. Thanks again.

Best wishes,
Zodiac.

Garry Wroe · 07-08-2011, 02:37 AM

Child workers, date and location unknown ...

And Frying Pan Alley, c1900 ...

Hatchett · 07-06-2011, 07:33 PM

Hi Garry,

Yes, you are right, and also I suspect a hardened disbelief in the state, country, authority, or fellow man and woman.

And who could blame them?

Best wishes.

David.

Garry Wroe · 07-06-2011, 07:25 PM

That photograph of the little girl hugging the small child, tells more than volumes. There seems to be a terrible knowledge of infant mortality there, as though they both know that their time is limited.

Absolutely, David.

For those two I dont think that staying or going off the rails is the cause of their present misery.

Quite. But survival for such children carried a dramatically increased probability of a drunken and/or criminal adulthood, the examples of which were rife in the East End and similarly deprived neighbourhoods.

Hatchett · 07-06-2011, 11:42 AM

Hello Garry and Jen,

That photograph of the little girl hugging the small child, tells more than volumes. There seems to be a terrible knowledge of infant mortality there, as though they both know that their time is limited.

For those two I dont think that staying or going off the rails is the cause of their present misery.

I think that photograph brings home the desperation and utter mistery of the time and the place vividly.

Perhaps too vividly.

Best wishes.

Garry Wroe · 07-06-2011, 11:27 AM

Another group of Victorian children ...

Mill workers, date unknown ...

Garry Wroe · 07-05-2011, 01:10 AM

New Castle Place, c1910 ...

And more London street children from the 1890s ...

babybird67 · 07-05-2011, 12:56 AM

I know Garry

its amazing any of them stayed on the rails at all.

Garry Wroe · 07-05-2011, 12:53 AM

With a start in life like that, Jen, small wonder that a proportion of such youngsters went off the rails - if they were ever on them in the first place.