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 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...