by Andrew Gill | Aug 16, 2021 | Gallery, I didn’t expect that!, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
It would be easy to imagine that life in the early 1900s was a very serious matter with long working hours, poor housing, the struggle to pay the rent and put food on the table and, of course, Church on Sunday. The reality is that people had the same capacity for...
by Andrew Gill | Aug 9, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Travelling fairs seem to be less common than they were in my childhood, when one would visit our town a couple of times a year. There was an excitement about the fair tinged with wariness and unease, not just about whether the rides were safe but the people operating...