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hy and furthermore one man s treasure encourages the use of anonymous photographs posted here to illustrate books and album covers if an image appeals to you contact john toohey at johntoohey hotmail com saturday 15 october 2016 child s play nine photos of edwardian children there is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in graham greene the children in these british photographs especially those taken in the north of england between 1905 and 1914 belonged to the first generation in over two hundred years who were given a good chance of surviving until adulthood the mother of this baby taken by john brown smithson of leyburn in yorkshire had grown up in a world where statistically one in four children would die at birth and only half live past the age of five disease took most of them but the real culprit was industrialization in factory towns the smog carried cadmium and lead and other dangerous metals that poisoned infants studio scenes of adoring mum with her newborn in this pose are not that common generally photographers preferred the mother to be seated although in this case smithson got to show off his five headed badger rug in citizen kane reporter jerry thompson sets out to discover the meaning behind kane s dying word rosebud and fails to discover it was the brand name of his sled when he was a little boy for kane the sled is not only one of his earliest memories it takes him back to that age of innocence before everything he won and lost destroyed him you get the feeling the rabbit in this image has been invested with similar power in years to come most of her early childhood will be consigned to fog but she will remember the rabbit for a while it was her best friend unknown child unknown photographer unknown date but certainly taken at one of england s seaside resorts about 1905 during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the major resorts at brighton blackpool southport and scarborough were for the gentry who could afford the hotels and who followed fads such as water cures and sulphur baths by the 1850s and the expansion of railways some progressive factory owners were sending workers off to the seaside for long weekends and in 1871 the bank holidays act granted a generous four days to workers even then resorts were for adults not children that began to change towards the late nineteenth century and by the time this lad stood at the water s edge it was not just common it was expected that parents would bring their children and spend most of the holiday with them before long the motor car gave families the freedom to spread out from the resorts and find their own spaces our subjects are getting older during the late nineteenth century both girls and boys wore dresses up to the age of five and up to the 1920s pink signified boys blue for girls both genders also wore sailor suits in fashion for boys since the 1840s when the future edward vii put one on but by the 1910s every five year old girl had to have one too taxidermist and photographer theo upton barber aka tubs was born in wisconsin but moved to england around the turn of the century and opened his studio at 84 preston road in faversham kent in 1911 in an era when it s not unusual for men to extend their childhoods into their thirties photos like this are a sharp reminder that a century ago children began their move into adulthood as soon as they handed down their child uniforms to their younger brothers and sisters around five years old this boy isn t even ten yet already he dresses like a pocket version of his father right down to the watch chain even his pose is adult like the photographer was frederick southwell who operated studios in battersea hammersmith and wandsworth and apparently was no relation to his namesake of the better known southwell brothers do you know who is sitting on the other side of lucy henson written in a child s uncertain handwriting posted from batley near leeds and addressed to a mrs rolandson of grewelthorpse near ripon in yorkshire we can assume that s lucy on the stile and by the other side the writer means of the camera again we get that notion that will increasingly cease to have relevance as the twentieth century progresses that the child is just a pocket version of the adult the photographer is not identified but from the quality of the print and the evidence of studio lighting we can say he or she was a professional the performers are strictly amateur which is not to say they are bad ham seems a useful word here there are hundreds of thousands of photographs of children in fancy dress from the edwardian period not so many of them performing for the camera as here the wall at the back and the parquetrie on the floor are sufficiently indeterminate to make it understand whether this was taken in a private home or a school i suspect the latter more role playing there was a moment roughly between 1895 and 1910 when people could believe that the upcoming century would put technology to good and with our extended life spans better education and concordant freedoms most problems would disappear by the time this photo was taken that dream was in ruins these lads are too young to have flown in a proper warplane but just the right age to catch the experience the next time it came around just over twenty years later this photo was likely taken in 1907 the year twelve year old frances bradley storr baptised babies but also adults into her primitive methodist sect before congregations of several thousand primitive methodism sounds much what it was passionate revival meetings and hellfire and damnation sermons by the likes of miss storr who had feeling to compensate for her lack of education or straitened background like the peculiar people of plumstead and the new forest shakers from a few years earlier she espoused a religious empowerment of the working class that was socialistic in everything but its politics she was hardly the only child preacher working in england at the time lonnie dennis florrie elkins gertie brackenbury and jack cooke being others but stateside there were reputedly dozens working a kind of sideshow circuit in the 1920s frances and her mother moved to canada where she continued to preach the photographer is unidentified but doncaster photographer luke bagshaw took a lot of her promotional shots posted by one mans treasure at 17 17 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels britain childhood history of photography portraits real photo postcards snapshots saturday 17 september 2016 land fourteen photographs of the english landscape the ordinary can be absolutely miraculous simon armitage the fourteen photos here each measuring twelve by eight centimetres were found at spitalfields market some of them look like they are of the moorlands in derbyshire at the edge of the pennines others look like they come from the east coast of yorkshire near scarborough or whitby they lay among small stacks of old hardbacks and ephemera spread across the table the dealer couldn t say much about them except he had had them for some time they d be cheaper the more i bought and they had come with a lot of stuff to do with the festival of britain that made sense the photos looked to be from around that time 1951 and they look to be the work of a professional someone sent out to take a set of photos for a magazine article on the splendours of the north certainly we can see why someone thought there was a landscape worth promoting the pennines and the derbyshire moors which is where we are now decided we are can invoke many associations from pride and prejudice to myra hindley and everything in between but these days simon armitage in particular his translation or interpretation of gawain and the green knight and pearl although the identity original author is unknown scholars agree that he wrote both poems in the late 14 th century and linguistic clues indicate he came from this area a brief synopsis of the first one new year s day the green knight turns up at king arthur s court and asks to have his head cut off sir gawain obliges but must fulfil a promise to meet the beheaded one at the green chapel in a year s time gawain sets out and somewhere in the damp landscape he finds a castle the master welcomes him then heads off the next morning on a hunt while gawain keeps his beautiful wife company and you just have to read it yourself the landscape as armitage describes it anyway is more rugged than these images of moorland suggest more like parts of staffordshire to the west pearl however takes place on open land where a man grieving for his young daughter pearl follows a river and meets a woman walking on the other side they talk across the water and she reveals she is his daughter now grown up and a queen of christ they debate various issues this raises until desperate to reach out to her the man jumps into the river and tries to cross it not that either gawain or pearl are dependent upon the landscape to tell their story although in gawain there is the sense that up here it is wild and rugged especially compared to the more gentle lands in the south where arthur has his court also in both there is an idea that the landscape is mutable which is important in moorland where the weather can shift by the hour even though they are found across britain the dry stone wall is something of an icon on the yorkshire dales the way black windmills belong to norfolk what gives walls like this one their timelessness isn t the stonework so much as the feeling this was built with some purpose in mind but that has been forgotten for centuries it meanders across the land speaking of norfolk this looks so much like the coast around cromer and happisburgh that we could put all doubt aside that exposed reef can be thought of as the edge of doggerland the now submerged plain that once linked britain to europe and was home to mammoths lions rhinos and neanderthals our photographer wouldn t have known that or that the oldest relic of any human in europe would be found near here but then in 1951 a lot of people thought anything from the time before the war was old even if i had bought these in another country we d still know it was england the patchwork fields and hedgerows tell us it can t be anywhere else this was no doubt our photographer s intention to get an impression of the land that wasn t just idealized but emblematic and one that visitors as well as citizens would recognize posted by one mans treasure at 16 05 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bridges britain history of photography landscapes rural life seaside the sea walking thursday 30 june 2016 a brief history of time dated snapshots we would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it john f kennedy the act of writing the date on snapshots has the effect of preserving the image not just in its immediate surroundings but globally knowing what we do about the past we can wonder pointlessly how people can appear so blasé with what s unfolding in other parts of the world we don t know the exact day this photo was taken but in saskatchewan at the very beginning of june 1936 the snow had melted from the prairies the sun was out and this young foal born weeks earlier was still finding its feet the boy not a great deal older than the foal certainly with more time to learn life s valuable lessons had a long summer vacation to look forward to in iraq princess azza sister of the king was not so relaxed she had recently married a hotel porter from rhodes so was stripped of her royal privileges meanwhile the chinese government in nanking was pushing for an immediate declaration of war against japan rumours were circulating that a british officer had killed a japanese soldier the british delegation denied reports and ascribed them to chinese paranoia in eighteen months time an estimated 40 000 chinese civilians would be killed in the nanking massacre the earliest photo in this collection comes from quebec and was taken on april 18 1927 over in europe the weather was mostly fine with reports that air traffic over the english channel was exceptionally busy in bath thomas hampshire a 48 year old chauffeur was so terrified of an upcoming operation than he jumped out the hospital window so saving the surgeon from another messy job but upsetting his wife greatly in antrim northern ireland mr r j anderson president of the national association of headmasters let it be known what he thought of feminists and their male supporters no woman can train a boy in the habits of manliness such a woman might be an admirable proprietress of a wild west saloon but we have no room for her in our boys schools on april 27 1931 the prospect of war troubled reverend james as he spoke at the fellowship of reconciliation at bury st edmunds if christianity does not destroy war he warned then war will destroy christianity meanwhile in belfast edward cullen s murder trial opened he had arrived in england four months earlier in the company of ahmet musa and zara agha reputedly the world s oldest man a manhunt began when musa s naked body was discovered in a field outside of carrickfergus across the water the world s largest airship the akron began her maiden voyage from akron ohio on october 5 1935 the dundee courier was full of praise for montreal a city with an abundance of sunshine to appeal to sports lovers in blackburn lancashire robert cotton took a slug of whisky to cure his cold it helped so he took another which also helped an hour and two bottles later he was arrested after assaulting a fellow passenger on a bus in tokyo colonel yamada went home and committed ritual suicide after he shot dead general negata of the war office in melbourne mr w smith showed off his giant marrow measuring over three feet long and swore beer was the best fertilizer he knew of on february 15 1936 newspapers reported that across turkey twelve people had frozen to death during blizzards that also killed thousands of cattle and destroyed hundreds of ships and boats meanwhile in response to accusations its oil was fuelling the italian war machine the u s was considering an oil embargo spanish elections scheduled for the 16 th had the rest of europe on edge the contest was essentially between communist and fascist parties and whoever won the result was a warning of an insecure future for the continent in south africa a bill was before the government that would effectively disenfranchise black voters members of the twelfth annual congress for the international alliance of women for suffrage and equal citizenship were welcomed by president ataturk in ankara today in glasgow meanwhile a group of men from barra island in the outer hebrides made their first ever visit to the mainland they were reportedly terrified by the sight of a tram paul wharton dress designer to hollywood stars 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