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 | Sep 2, 2021 | Gallery, Sport, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
I’m not sure that shooting birds can be classified as a sport but lots of people enjoy it and it’s probably in our hunter / gatherer DNA. What I like about this photograph from the early 1900s is their smug expressions. There is no caption, so we... 