by Andrew Gill | Sep 15, 2021 | Gallery, I didn’t expect that!, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This is a public park in the early 1900s. The kids are having fun on a rather unusual type of play equipment, presumably provided by the local authority. At today’s prices, there’s several thousand pounds worth of rocking horses here and they would need to... 
by Andrew Gill | Sep 14, 2021 | Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Boys will be boys and dipping a net into a stream to see what you can find has always been part of childhood. They seem to be delighted with their catch! Enjoy this original photograph from our archive. It is low resolution and has a ‘keasbury-gordon.com’... 
by Andrew Gill | Sep 13, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Stick and hoop must be one of the oldest known children’s games. There is evidence that it was played in Greece two and a half thousand years ago. This photograph taken in Glasgow Docks in the 1890s, shows children having fun with the simplest of toys. Perhaps I... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 12, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Pudsey is a real place, not just the name of a bear on the BBC. I like this photograph because although it’s one hundred years’ old, the play equipment is so familiar. Parks, of course, were the ‘lungs of the city’, public spaces where people... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 31, 2021 | Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
We take it for granted that when we need water, we simply turn on the tap. It was not always so and this photograph, taken in the 1890s, shows a young girl fetching water from a communal well, which would have been fed by a local spring. This was heavy work,... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 27, 2021 | Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
We are very wary of taking photographs of children, especially other people’s. Victorian photographers would not have understood our concerns and, as a consequence have, thankfully, left us with some remarkable images of children’s lives. We tend to think... 