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 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 | Jul 29, 2021 | A Golden Age, Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Britain in the 19th century was an industrial nation but also had a rural economy employing vast numbers of men, women and children in labour-intensive, physically-demanding work. At harvest time, whole families shared the task of cutting, gathering, transporting and... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 29, 2021 | A Golden Age, Gallery
The Hay Wain is probably John Constable’s most famous painting. It captures a rural scene in southern England in a pre-industrial era. Victorians were nostalgic for such peace and tranquility and this photograph, taken by a professional photographer in the 1890s... 