A look at turn of the century English life.
Nov 26, 2016 07:58:54 #
John N wrote:
Lake Street in Oxford still floods to this day.
Thanks John, interesting. I wonder if the pub still exists.
Nov 26, 2016 08:08:47 #
cockney greg wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3969174/A-Lost-England-Incredible-black-white-photos-reveal-life-like-people-19th-early-20th-centuries-issues-faced-not-different-ones-today.html
Amazing! It was a different world back then.
Nov 26, 2016 09:01:56 #
Caribou
Loc: St. Louis, MO
Great pictures, especially of the old buildings and street scenes. Thanks for posting.
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Nov 26, 2016 09:25:25 #
exakta56
Loc: Orford,New Hampshire
Very nice photos depicting the lives of many who were by our standards today very poor. Please read Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' if you are curious as to how most people here and the UK lived in 1900. Another highly lauded book on the subject written by a Brit is 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell which gives particular insight into the common tradesman's life and his brutal reality.
Nov 26, 2016 09:29:20 #
cockney greg wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3969174/A-Lost-England-Incredible-black-white-photos-reveal-life-like-people-19th-early-20th-centuries-issues-faced-not-different-ones-today.html
Ah! yes, I remember it well!!!!!!
Nov 26, 2016 11:07:29 #
I always have to marvel at the quality of photography back then and even earlier with photos of our west. It is also interesting to note that people in the photographs are rarely seen with a smile on their face, an indication I guess of a hard life.
Nov 26, 2016 13:54:08 #
cockney greg wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3969174/A-Lost-England-Incredible-black-white-photos-reveal-life-like-people-19th-early-20th-centuries-issues-faced-not-different-ones-today.html
A simpler time to be sure but certainly not without its problems... now gone for ever.
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Nov 26, 2016 15:23:34 #
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