A child wearing an Indian headdress hides in a coalhole and takes aim Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
Children playing in the rubble on a London bombsite Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A girl draws in chalk on a wall Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
One young boy ambushing another around a street corner, each with his toy gun at the ready Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A recent emigrant from Jamaica arrives in Birmingham looking for work and lodgings Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
Kwessi Blankson from Jamaica offers a light to workmate Jack White at The Phosphor Bronze Company where he is in charge of the oil burners Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
Mr Siebert Mattison from St Anne in Jamaica now lives, sleeps and cooks in the same room with his Welsh wife and their three children Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A trio of Jamaican immigrants walking the streets of Birmingham Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
Three women stare curiously over the banister in a Birmingham house Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A child sleeping in a slum dwelling in the backstreets of Liverpool, where 88,000 of the houses are deemed unfit for human habitation Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A woman out for a walk in a slum area of Liverpool Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A woman washing her face over a basin in her rundown Liverpool home
Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
Three teenage boys with fashionable hairstyles on a street corner Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A woman sitting by a stove with two children at their home in the Frank Street slum clearance area of Liverpool Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
An elderly woman standing among the litter in a back alley of the Liverpool slums Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A group of children playing weddings Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
A pub landlady with some of her customers Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images
