https://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/items/browse?tags=children&output=atom2024-03-29T06:04:04+00:00Omekahttps://photoarchive.morrablibrary.org.uk/items/show/17846
Mark on print top left is straight from the negative.
Refer to JDS 359, centre top left to see the building as is.]]>2021-04-21T04:55:22+00:00
Title
Procession of children, all girls, in Newlyn, occasion unknown.
Description
View of girls procession at the corner of a building at Fore Street, at the 'Green' opposite lower Green Street.
Mark on print top left is straight from the negative.
Refer to JDS 359, centre top left to see the building as is.
A typical hand-propelled ice cream wagon of the early decades of the 20th century. Pictured on the Penzance Promenade at the bottom of Morrab Road in the 1920s, it was owned by the Scoble family who were well-known ice cream makers of the era. The gilded headboards of the wagon read, "Scoble's Ices, Guaranteed Pure and Made Fresh Daily", A McVitie & Price biscuit tin can also be seen.
An ice cream vendor with hand barrow and children customers. Picture from 'Grandfathers London' (Putnam, 4 Great Russell Street, 1956/61), see page 34.
Publisher
Morrab Library
Date
1890
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
OCC 6.001
Coverage
London
Original Format
book
Period Costume
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Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting, rising to 3d or 4d per day, according to their ability.
See Parliamentary Papers (1842) XVI Report or Chldren's Employment Commission, and 1864 Enquiry into all mines in Britain (not coal) and other official records.
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Title
Surface Workers Refining Tin St Ives Consols
Subject
Surface
Anno MWorkWC IBP
Description
St Ives Consols showing children at work.
Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting, rising to 3d or 4d per day, according to their ability.
See Parliamentary Papers (1842) XVI Report or Chldren's Employment Commission, and 1864 Enquiry into all mines in Britain (not coal) and other official records.
A Victorian youngster proudly presents his home-made model of a Mount's Bay lugger (a Cornish fishing boat of the period), as some of the same rig can be seen in the background.
A photo of a Christmas card. Staged scenes such as this were sold as Christmas cards in the early days. Christmas hampers dispatched by rail from London and other big town stores were unreturnable and often given to the children to play with. This was often the result - labelled turkey, mince pies, plum pudding, etc., a family, surrounded by the puddings and odd toys are pictured here. The inscription reads, "'What jolly fun the boys all said, Here's Mary standing on her head'. A Romping Christmas".
Photo of a postcard featuring three children and a snowman in a snowy scene with the inscription, 'A merry Christmas'. Folded cards as we know them now did not emerge until the 1920s-'30s. This card, carrying a King Edward VII green half-penny stamp with the greeting, "See you in the New Year" and the cancellation of the office of origin and the addressee are a mere five miles apart, both in Cornwall.
Eileen Humphreys, Iris Bond, Violet Trendrath, Phyllis Williams, Mil Trumball, Janie Chappell, Ada Tembetts, Gwinnie Brunton, Billy Harvey, Stanley Thomas, Tom Angove, Jack Chappell, Clarence Harvey, John Quick, Clifford Strick, Bert Chappell, John Hocking, Joe Braunton, Lawrie Hall, Betty Berryman, Edith Trenary, Marjorie Quick, Josie Angove, Charlie Strick, Bertha Strick, Ken Hall.