Hidden Lives Revealed. A virtual archive - children in care 1881-1981 * Image of handwritten text

The streets where they lived

This section has 20 photographs of slum areas in cities and of poor children.
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A street game

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Title: A street game
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Read a poem and a story inspired by this photograph, from the Young Cultural Creators project

Children drinking from  fountain

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Boys pushing a girl in a pushchair

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The little ragamuffin

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Title: The little ragamuffin
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View down a typical urban street

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English nomads

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Three brothers

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Waiting on the street

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Young carers

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Read a poem inspired by this photograph, from the Young Cultural Creators project

Boys in a doorway

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Title: Boys in a doorway
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