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[Daggers]

I used to get up in the morning at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work. And when I got home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.

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[Granfan]

Not sure this picture is old, weird, funny or interesting but it's a close up of beautiful creatures.  Hard to believe people would hunt them down with dogs to kill them

 

[Wymsey]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

Imagine if kids and teenagers were asked to go to the trenches these days; some would probably be quivering in their beds and checking social media in the hope of that it's a false alarm..

Edited 8 December 2024 by Wymsey

[davieG]

1950

[Royston.]

Didnt know Freddie Mercury was that old

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

I can imagine his mam saying, 'If that thing goes off, don't you come back running to me'.

[foxile5]

On 07/12/2024 at 19:38, Parafox said:

 

Not one of them has a mobile phone.

 

Jeez that must've been tough.

They'd all have anxiety and need emotional support snails with them nowadays.

[Parafox]

5 hours ago, foxile5 said:

They'd all have anxiety and need emotional support snails with them nowadays.

 

We make fun, a bit, but sadly the modern tech age is not doing our kids any favours in terms of socialising with peers and society in general.

[davieG]

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The Marylebone Workhouse. London 1901…

[Foxdiamond]

7 minutes ago, davieG said:

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The Marylebone Workhouse. London 1901…

My Great Great Grandfather must have been a tough old bloke. Carpenter by trade. Lived till age 92 ending his days in a workhouse in Kent in 1902. 

[SkidsFox]

On 11/12/2024 at 09:23, davieG said:

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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, February 1940

 

Yikes. Balls of steel.

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Class Divide: A Snapshot of Britain in 1937

On July 9, 1937, outside the Grace Gates at Lord’s Cricket Ground, photographer Jimmy Sime captured an image that would become a poignant symbol of Britain’s class divide. The photo, taken during the prestigious Eton vs. Harrow cricket match, features two sharply dressed upper-class Harrow students on the left and three working-class boys on the right.

The Harrow boys, Peter Wagner and Thomas “Tim” Dyson, were awaiting Wagner’s father to take them to their family’s country home in Surrey. Tragically, Tim Dyson’s life was cut short just a year later when he fell ill while visiting his father’s military post in Trimulgherry, India, dying at the age of 16. His family endured further heartbreak when his father, captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in 1942, died in a Japanese prison camp in Korea that same year. Peter Wagner went on to work at his family’s stockbroker firm, married, and had children, but his life ended at age 60 in Hellingly Psychiatric Hospital in East Sussex in 1984.

In contrast, the three working-class boys—George Salmon, Jack Catlin, and George Young—led longer and seemingly more stable lives. George Young started a window-cleaning business, providing work for his four sons. George Salmon lived a full life before passing away in 2000. Jack Catlin, widowed and remarried, lived to be 85, passing in 2011, survived by a loving family.

This photo not only highlights the visual differences