Children on climbing frame
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children on swings
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding, 1939
Children on the street in Aston
Children Playing at the Botanical Gardens
Holidays were mainly the preserve of the middle classes in the late nineteenth century – the poor had very little time off and very little spare money to spend. A public park therefore provided a unique ...
Children playing football in Holliday Road, Handsworth by Vanley Burke
This photograph is part of a Digital Handsworth online gallery: Vanley Burke Galleries
Photograph copyright: Vanley Burke
Children playing in street by Nick Hedges
Children’s play was often determined by gender, both at home and in the street. Here the boy plays with a wheel barrow whilst the girls play with dolls and prams.
Children playing on Suffolk Street by A. G. Davis
Children playing on the street
Photograph taken by Bill Brandt (1904-1983), from a series for the Bournville Village Trust.
Photograph courtesy of Bournville Village Trust.
Children playing with building blocks
Children Receive Bread at Worcester Cathedral
This photograph shows the distribution of bread in the Chapter House at Worcester Cathedral. This formed part of the cathedral's charitable bequests.
Children sitting by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children standing outside
Children taking part in a protest for the introduction of road crossings
Children taking part in May Day celebrations at Knutsford, Cheshire by Sir Benjamin Stone
Many of the boys are dressed as soldiers or in patriotic outfits. This is probably a reflection of the fact that Britain was fighting in the South African (or Boer) War at the time.
Children wearing satchels
Children with their family on a canal boat
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted.
Other children lived in barges. Their families made a living ...