Children at breakfast table
Children at Garland Day
Garland Day at Abbotsbury, Dorset, was the survival of an ancient festival of Neptune. Boats were formerly decorated with flowers and then cast into the sea as offerings.
Children at Garland Day
Garland Day at Abbotsbury, Dorset, was the survival of an ancient festival of Neptune. Boats were formerly decorated with flowers and then cast into the sea as offerings.
Children by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children carrying bricks, from George Smith, ‘The Cry of the Children from the Brickyards of England’
Children chopping wood at home from Edward Cadbury, M. Cecile Matheson, and George Shann, ‘Women’s Work and Wages’
For poor children the home was often a place of work, alongside their mother. Children as young as five contributed to the family’s income by helping with unskilled work such as tying up bundles of chopped ...
Children drying their hands
Children eating breakfast, by Lisel Haas
The children sharing breakfast in this photograph are believed to be siblings although we do not know their names. Haas was born in Monchengladbach, Germany. She was a Jewish refugee who settled in Birmingham ...
Children feeding a swan
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children from Port Elizabeth
This photograph shows children with a teacher in Port Elizabeth, Africa.
Children in abandoned car, Lozells
Most working class homes were so small and overcrowded that there was little space to play indoors. Parents encouraged their children to play outside in the street. The street became a place for running, ...
Children in Bethlehem
Street scene in Bethlehem.
Children in Classroom, Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage by Sir Benjamin Stone
This photograph shows that all of the girls are dressed uniformly and the age range of the girls in the orphanage. It also shows school desks and some teaching equipment. The space is large but is heated ...
Children in school classroom
Photograph of a white boy and a black girl in a classroom interior. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Children in Summer Lane
Many of the back-to-back courts in the city had a large number of children living in them. The children of Summer Row were among the poorest in Birmingham, as we can see from their clothes and the boy ...
Children in Traditional Japanese Dress
This photograph shows two children dressed in traditional Japanese attire, Kyoto, Japan.
Children in Warwickshire
This photograph shows 'village children' at Water Orton.
Children on a see-saw
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.