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These were tough times. How did anyone survive that level of deprivation, over crowding, lack of sanitation and poor diet These were our ancestors 🇬🇧

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Gunner Hector Murdoch arrives home to his new prefabricated house in Tulse Hill on 15th October 1945, his birthday, and is greeted by wife Rosina and 5-year-old son John. He had been away for four and a half years, three and a half of which he was a Japanese prisoner of war after…

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After Blackpool donkey operator Freddy Fletcher's death in the 1940s, his estranged wife Vera, who had previously run off with another man, returned to the town, hoping to inherit his sizable estate. Unfortunately for Vera, not only had Freddy changed his will after she left in…

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A photograph of Mr Sutton Pownall, a gravedigger, with his wife Joyce and their five children in a 150 year old house at Number Two Court, Dickenson Street, Oldham. Taken on the 1st June in 1962

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“A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were…

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A moment of daily life in Whitby, England otherwise forgotten, recorded forever.(1800s)

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Charlotte "Lottie" Meade - married, mother of 4, and a munitions worker in a British factory during WW1. On October 11, 1916, Lottie Meade died at the age of 27 in the Kensington Infirmary after a difficult illness. Her autopsy concluded that Meade's cause of death was "coma due…

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Ex-servicemen, in London, who were promised a "Land fit for Heroes", busk for pennies to survive.

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9 months

Brits waking up in the morning to this. Getting their belongings together, and trying to just carry on.🇬🇧

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10 months

Penny for the guy, you don’t see kids doing this anymore .

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1 year

A sad view into the past, London . Date Unknown wonder what became of them 😢

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4 months

A photograph of Mother and Son. Taken in 1936 , in Newcastle , By Bert Hardy

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11 months

A great photo of Hackney Marshes , London in 1962. 111 football games being played at once.

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British Restaurants were communal kitchens created in 1940 to help people who had been bombed out of their homes, had run out of ration coupons or otherwise needed help. In 1943, 2,160 British Restaurants served 600,000 very inexpensive meals a day, these were mostly manned by…

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Grace Kelly’s grandfather was a bricklayer from County Mayo. His name was John Peter Kelly and he was born in this tiny three-roomed cottage in Drimurla, in 1857. He left Ireland when he was 30 years of age, bound for Philadelphia where he would found one of the city’s leading…

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9 months

Taken in Peckham, London 1964. Mods posing for a group photo.

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British children playing outdoors in London suburbs taken in 1970

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This is Henley-on-Thames train Station in Oxfordshire, England. The date? 1899 BD (Before Diversity). Look at their elegance, their posture and pride in their presentation. The past truly is a foreign country, one I long for. 🇬🇧

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“Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe abuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of close-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the strangest, the…

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9 months

An image of London in 1896.

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5 months

A photograph of a coal miner at the end of his shift, taken in the UK

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3 months

Southwark Park road and Tower Bridge market footage from 1931

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10 months

Two villagers drinking at the Bidford Mop annual fair in the village of Bidford-on-Avon in the English county of Warwickshire, circa 1900.

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Taken in 1953 a picture of Tommy Taylor (Barnsley & Manchester United) with his mum and dad Violet & Charlie at home in Smithies when he signed for Manchester United - looks like dinner-time for Tommy with his mum serving him what looks like a chop 🥩tragically Tommy was one of…

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1 year

Two children on Scotland Road, Liverpool, take in the 1890s

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Happy anniversary to my parents today , dad hailing from Barnsley and mum from Tottenham they met at the Royal and 49 years later today are still going strong . They wouldn’t let me at the wedding album …. These were taken in 1980 when life was simple and people were happy with…

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8 months

A London family having Lyles Golden Syrup on bread for tea, taken in London 1952.

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Three children with dirty faces, torn clothes and no shoes look helpless in this snap taken in Liverpool in 1880. In the Victorian era children were expected to work long hours in dangerous jobs for very little wage. Mortality rates for children were poor, with the main cause…

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A Housewife's work never ends in the 1950's 🇬🇧

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A photograph of children at play in Battersea taken in 1963

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Nat Lofthouse as a Bevin boy, a young man conscripted to work down the mines between 1943 -1948. His Saturday would consist of 3.30am get up to catch 4.30 tram to work, 8hr shift underground before being picked up by the team bus to play for Bolton in the afternoon

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A photograph of Postman David Lewis Jones, who took nine hours to complete his round in the remote mountain areas between Tregaron and Abergwesyn, even though he only delivered to eight houses. He carried out his round on horseback. Taken in 1951, in Wales.

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A photograph of WW1 Scottish soldiers in the trenches with their pet dog.

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6 months

"Have you news of my boy Jack?” Not this tide. "When d'you think that he'll come back?" Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. "Has any one else had word of him?" Not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this…

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10 months

I love this photo I always have done. It’s a shame this time has gone , people are selfish , and are not chivalrous now . Modernism has taken over along with personal gain . Take me back to simpler times where men were men , women were women and people did what they said on the…

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Colourised photograph of girls in the late 1800s, in a London workhouse, sorting thro' bits of rope and twine, their hands would have been beyond sore, cold, raw and bleeding....what a sad and miserable existence it was for so sad for so many

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Sergeant Alf Foster – a legend of the Manchester City Police’s ‘B’ Division. Born in the Staffordshire town of Burslem in 1895, he served with the Grenadier Guards during the Great War. He joined Manchester City Police on July 27, 1921 at the age of 25. His joining record shows…

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8 months

Taken in London 1959. The Jamaica wine house which still stands

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4 months

A photograph of a woman washing her front door step taken in West weir street Sunderland

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3 months

A beautifully serene photograph of London ‘’Blitz’’ evacuee children playing in a Cotswold village, taken in July 1940.

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A photograph of a typical british Family on their doorstep during the 50s London

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10 months

Old Footage of Cornwall ❤️

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A photograph of a boy standing outside a public house with a bottle of drink taken in London in 1954. The Photographer was Thurston Hopkins

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9 months

One of the best road movies, the classic british comedy 1953 Genevieve. Here they're just about to cross the finishing line, London Bridge

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A photograph of the Shambles, in York. Taken circa 1900

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A photograph of Buster Merryfield, aka Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses. Taken in 1938

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Freddie Harrison, 6, saved his sister Winifred Mary , 3, from a pile of bricks after a German bomb smashed their London home whilst they were in bed in 1941. Freddie and Winifred , workedtogether with their hands , tore away more debris to rescue their baby sister, Joybells.

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Sailors arriving at Victoria Station, London 1940’s . Love the shadows.

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6 months

If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to…

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A photograph taken on the 9th April in 1934 of A group of children in a slum area of London's King's Cross play an improvised game of cricket with a lamppost as a wicket and a bat tied together with string. Photo by William Vanderson

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A young Spitalsfields girl, looking exhausted after collecting rags to sell. Early 1900s.

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Lovely Footage of England from 1899

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1 year

A Street urchin found by Thomas Barnardo in Whitechapel ,that led to his orphanage and later a ragged school, to educate the East End's destitute.

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Poor children of the Stepney slum in the East End of London.

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A photograph of The big freeze 🥶 taken in 1963

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Stunning photo of two young women relaxing on the Cliffs of Dover taken circa 1944.

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A Photograph of Stan Laurel, aged about 12, with his mother Madge outside Ayton House, his second North Shields home.

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9 months

Having a pint in the 'Prospect Of Whitby'. A good old east end pub. London, 1940s. @Britains___Pubs

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A photograph of a home in the Scottish Highlands, taken in 1902

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Footage of Blackpool from 1903

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“Mother And Son” taken in Ireland, in 1890.

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A photograph of Annie (right) and Nellie Lyons sitting outside their house in Spitalfields, London, circa 1901. These girls were two of ten children, half of whom died before adulthood.

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A photograph of a Poor little street urchin, Glasgow, Scotland, taken In 1960s

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A teenage boy in Horden finishes his shift at the colliery.

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Thatched house in South Wales, taken circa 1905.

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A photograph of Two girls galloping at full speed on sheep in Cornwall, England. Taken in 1969 - by John Drysdale

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Two bare-footed and dirty looking young boys pose for a picture, Liverpool, circa 1880s. Street children in the city were often found living in large groups in alleys or side streets. The children of the slums were often undernourished and could suffer from a number of ailments…

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"“Nowhere in the streets of London may one escape the sight of abject poverty, while five minutes’ walk from almost any point will bring one to a slum; but the region my hansom was now penetrating was one unending slum. The streets were filled with a new and different race of…

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Women with their children wait to hear news of their husbands after an explosion at Garswood Hall No. 9 Colliery in Lancashire, on the 12th November 1932.

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A poignant photograph of the view looking Eastwards along East Street Market in the late 1960s from the standpoint of Walworth Place; with a glimpse of a sign board just to our right, indicating the "Good Intent" Public House. Opposite on the left are of course the flats of…

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A severely malnourished four-year-old, Liverpool, 1900. For many children in the city, if you did not work you could not eat. This would put you in line for a number of very dangerous jobs such as working in a factory or destitution. Due to the sometimes abusive nature of the…

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The man …

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Terry Venables and West Ham’s Ken Brown enjoy a kickabout with children on Bonham Road, Dagenham, the street on which they both grew up, in January 1965. RIP Terry Venables ⚽️

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Whitby North Yorkshire, 1890's

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RIP Steve Harley what a legend .

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A young lad, presumably with his younger sibling keeps himself busy reading a comic, while waiting for their mother in the bakery, some time during the 1950s.

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Going home.... in 1945

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A photograph taken in 1880 in St Kilda, Scottish Hebrides of four generations of women.

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A photograph of Trams on a wet London evening taken in 1950

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On London Bridge in the 1960s

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A photograph of Children playing outside the housing Gorbals district of Glasgow using an old bath tub for a boat and a few sticks for oars taken in June 1966.

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A cup of tea and a bit of peace back in the 1800s. 😇

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A man sells ginger cakes on King Street near Greenwich Park in South East London. In the late 1800s, there were estimated to have been about 30,000 street sellers across London, with each of them selling wares usually from a barrow or donkey cart

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Fishermen yarning in the North Cornwall village of Port Isaac. The harbour here has been the focus of life here since the middle ages. Initially the harbour was a port used for importing and exporting heavy goods such as slate from Delabole and coal from Wales. It goes without…

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Poor little ones on the street London c.1900. This was the 'norm' for many in Victorian east London.....

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A photograph of men and women Boating on the Thames taken 1900

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A Guardsman kisses his son goodbye Its said that a picture is worth a thousand words.

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A photograph of the bygone Eastend no gardens, a sunny day brought everyone into the street. Year unknown .

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Taken on the 4th April 1974 a Replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship the 'Golden Hind' sails past Tower Bridge.

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1969. Noddy Holder and the rest of Slade pose outside Claridge's Hotel.

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A photograph of a coalman delivering coal down a manhole in the 1970s.

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A photograph of Sherry drinkers in a pub in Glasgow Gorbals taken in1968

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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie