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Two more from Hanbury Street ...
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Slum children somewhere in London, c1900 ...
And Castle Alley, 1938 ...
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Another slum child, c1900 ...
And two street orphans, date unknown ...
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oh Garry
they are amazing. Those children really tugged at my heart strings!
Thank you.
babybird
There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.
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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.Comment
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I know Garry
its amazing any of them stayed on the rails at all.
babybird
There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.
George SandComment
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New Castle Place, c1910 ...
And more London street children from the 1890s ...
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Another group of Victorian children ...
Mill workers, date unknown ...
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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.
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Absolutely, David.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.
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.For those two I dont think that staying or going off the rails is the cause of their present misery.Comment
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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.Comment
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Child workers, date and location unknown ...
And Frying Pan Alley, c1900 ...
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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.Last edited by Zodiac; 07-08-2011, 03:11 AM.And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.Comment
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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.Comment
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Another street child ...
And a London slum court, date and precise location unknown ...
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