by Andrew Gill | Aug 22, 2021 | A Golden Age, Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This is one of my favourite photographs in our collection, three children blackberrying in a country lane. A lovely, beautifully composed image of childhood in rural, Victorian England. Wonderful! Enjoy this original photograph from our archive. It is low resolution... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 20, 2021 | A Golden Age, Gallery
This hand-coloured Victorian photograph was published by an award-winning professional photographer as a glass projection slide in the 1890s. It was, in an industrial age, a reminder of a simpler, rural, gentler past. One hundred and thirty years later, we love it for... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 3, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
We use peat today as a fertiliser in our gardens but for centuries, in rural communities in Scotland and Ireland, peat was used as fuel for warmth and cooking. By its nature, it’s full of moisture and heavy and digging it out of the ground was back-breaking... 
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,... 