Spitalfields nippers: rare photographs of London street kids in 1901 – in pictures
Scruffy but happy … a boy poses in a wide-brim hatPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainA boy poses with a sprawling cabbage, possibly to take home for dinnerPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainA girl and boy make kindlingPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in Britain
A view of Union Place in SpitalfieldsPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainA Spitalfields nipper in a cap and commonly seen crumpled scarfPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainTwo girls wash clothes in the streetPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainA boy and girl on a window ledge Photograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainBarefoot and carefree? Two boys play near a cartPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in BritainA young girl cuddles with a catPhotograph: Horace Warner/The Religious Society of Friends in Britain
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