by Andrew Gill | Aug 29, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Scraping a living from a small piece of land has always been hard and never more so than in rural Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ireland has had more than its fair share of life-threatening crises with chronic, grinding poverty; the potato famine;... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 12, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Wyke is an area to the east of Halifax in Yorkshire. This photograph from the 1890s shows the practice of ‘coal getting’ in Judy Wood nearby. ‘Getting’ involved sorting through the waste from coal mines for the tiniest scraps of coal that... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 1, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This Victorian photograph shows a young girl looking longingly at sweets in a shop window. It is deliberately-posed, rather than taken at random by the photographer. We know it’s Winter as there is snow on the ground and there might be a clue to the location, as... 
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 | Jun 22, 2021 | Gallery, Places
This atmospheric photograph is of the Cross Keys Inn in Pangbourne on the banks of the River Thames. The boys are feeding working farm horses and appear to be in good spirits. This is a ‘what happened next?’ moment, as the ladies outside the pub are... 