Child Poverty In The East End

[Bob Hinton]

Not sure if this is the right place but do have a look.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017054/Britains-Slumdogs-The-ragged-filthy-East-London-children-just-100-years-ago-living-life-grime.html

[Bob Hinton]

Pictures

There is one photograph of a boy outside a window that is similar to the famous MJK window.

These photographs give us valuable information about the Eastend especially the types of buildings, windows and doors around then.

[Heinrich]

What a shameful indictment of the political system.

[Bob Hinton]

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What a shameful indictment of the political system.

Which political system? Every country under every system had places like these, it's just that now we have advanced but many other countries have not - would you prefer to live under their system?

[Suzi]

Hi Bob,
These pics have been around for ages- it's obviously taken The Mail a while to dig them out again. There are some schools of thought that the photographer deliberatly posed a lot of the shots.
However, they are great images nonetheless.

[miss marple]

Those photos are quite late 1900s.when thing were getting a little better.

Earlier Barnardo had made photographic record of every child he rescued and certainly posed and ragged and dirtied them up a bit for before and after shots. later photographers did to.
Barnardo did everything to publicise the condition of these children
Overcrowding, untreated disease,stunted growth, abandonment, filth, lack of food, prostitution, The East End of Mayhew the 1860s,70s how to get that into a photo that opened People's wallets.
Its like Don McCullen photographing war and famine in the 1960s.
Miss Marple

[Bob Hinton]

Really?

Those photos are quite late 1900s.when thing were getting a little better.


Miss Marple

I'm assuming you mean late 1800's?

[miss marple]

I should have put a comma after [late, 1900s when things were getting a little better]

Miss Marple

[Bob Hinton]

Punctuation

I should have put a comma after [late, 1900s when things were getting a little better]

Miss Marple

Just goes to show how the meaning of a sentence can be completely changed by missing a simple comma.

Here's one for you:
"Mary Kelly walked and talked half an hour after her throat was cut"

Place the comma where it makes sense!