Urchin Collection (page 6)

Five children on a Balham street, SW London
Five children climbing a wooden plank on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Group of children on a wall, Balham, SW London
Group of children standing on a wall in front of a house on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Two boys with cricket bat on a Balham street, SW London
Two boys with a cricket bat on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Two boys playing on a Balham street, SW London, both sticking out their tongues at someone. Date: circa 1961

Boys coming out of a sweet shop, Balham, SW London
Boys coming out of a sweet shop in Balham, SW London, with bottled drinks. Date: circa 1961

Boys playing on street corner, Balham, SW London
Four boys playing on a Balham street corner, SW London. Two of them are holding a cricket bat and a stick as if they are weapons. Date: circa 1961

Boy with two guns, Balham, SW London
A little boy with two guns (possibly real ones!) on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Four children playing on a Balham street, SW London. One boy seems to be blowing a raspberry at a girl wearing Girl Guides uniform. Date: circa 1961

Two boys with jam jar on a Balham street, SW London
Two little boys with a jam jar on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Group of children on a Balham street, SW London
Group of children standing in front of a house on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy and goat with comic magazine, Balham, SW London
A boy and a goat with a comic magazine, Balham, SW London. The original caption reads: The kid reads them and the goat eats them! Date: circa 1961

Four boys with dog, Balham, SW London
Four boys feeding sweets to a dog on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy with dog, Balham, SW London
A boy sitting on a dustbin in front of a house in Balham, SW London, with a dog on his lap. Date: circa 1961

Little boy with puppy, Balham, SW London
A little boy leaning against a lamp post, holding a cute puppy, Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little boys with dog, Balham, SW London
Four little boys petting a cute dog, Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys eating fish and chips, Balham, SW London
Three boys eating fish and chips out of newspaper on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Group of girls on a Balham street, SW London
Group of girls playing on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little boy with toffee apple, Balham, SW London
A little boy with freckles, eating a toffee apple, Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys with toy gun, Balham, SW London
Two boys on a Balham street, SW London. The younger boy has a plastic bottle in his mouth, while the older one holds a toy gun. Date: circa 1961

Boy with toy gun and cowboy hat, Balham, SW London
A little boy named Freddie, age 2, with a toy gun and a cowboy hat, on a Balham street corner, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys playing on a car in a Balham street, SW London
Three boys playing on an abandoned car in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Toddler playing with car tyre, Balham, SW London
A toddler playing with a car tyre (attached to a parked car) in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a mattress, Balham, SW London
Four boys lying on a mattress on top of a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a pile of rubbish, Balham, SW London
Boys on a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Perhaps it has been stacked up ready for bonfire night! Date: circa 1961

Boys playing in a puddle, Balham, SW London
Two boys playing in a puddle on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy playing with junk, Balham, SW London
A little boy playing on a pile of junk in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little girl smiling, Balham, SW London
Little girl smiling, Zennor Road area of Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Two children walking in a Balham street, SW London
Two young children walking hand-in-hand in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys with pram wheels and car in Balham street, SW London
Boys playing with pram wheels and an abandoned car in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Children playing with a van in a Balham street, SW London
Children playing in and around an abandoned van in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Children playing with a car in a Balham street, SW London
Children playing on and around an abandoned car in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys with a tricycle in a Balham street, SW London. One boy is holding a toy gun, and another is wearing a mask. Date: circa 1961

Girl and boy with pram wheels, Balham, SW London
A girl and a boy playing with a set of pram wheels on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Girls with their dolls in Balham, SW London
Three girls with their dolls in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little girl being carried, Balham, SW London -- she appears to be crying. Date: circa 1961

Children watching Punch and Judy show, Balham, SW London
Children watching a Punch and Judy show, Balham, SW London. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1961

Scamp cheekily drinks a Gentlemans tipple whilst distracted
" Why don t we have Open-air Cafes? So pleasant to takes ones refreshment in the open air." (vide newspapers) Date: 1895

Very tatty sandwichboard man advertises smart Gents suits
Visual irony of a very tatty sandwich board man advertising a Gentleman Tailor and his smart suits, retailing for 12/6. Date: circa 1890s

Street Urchin offers appraisal of passing pretty lady
The London Street Urchin (to companion over the way) - " Ow would that suit yer, Bill?". A young scamp offering an honest appraisal to his pal of a passing well-dressed

View on the Thames Embankment, London
View on the Thames Embankment, Central London Date: circa 1903

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

Collecting Sea Urchins - Barbados
A young boy collecting Sea Urchins - Barbados Date: circa 1910s

Scruffy young miserable Scottish golfing caddy bemoans his lot... " They call me " Breeks" But my Maiden names McIntosh!" Date: 1907

Pteraster acicula, starfish
Pteraster acicula from the classification Asteroidea: Spinulosida: Pterasteridae. This species of starfish is found from Florida to the west Gulf of Mexico, below 260m

Eucidaris tribuloides, sea urchin
Dead sea urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides) showing spines attached to test. From Carrie Bow Cay, Belize

Echinocorys scutata Leske, fairy loaf echinoid
A fairy loaf echinoid from the Cretaceous Chalk, Coranguinum Zone, Northfleet, Kent

Cheiracanthus murchisoni, fossil fish
This is an early jawed acanthodian fish from the Devonian rocks of Banffshire Scotland. Length 5 cms

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