Scruffy Collection (page 4)

Body confidence of a diminutive ruffian
" Shure, if oi was as big a ye-self oid woipe the flure wid yez, little as oi am!" Date: 1900

An unflattering Irish type who wanted Home Rule for Ireland. Date: circa 1890s

Country Tramp dismayed at only available activity being work
" Poor Man! And can t you find anything to do?" " Nothing but Work, Liddy." Date: 1898

Young children on the street with the youngest in a pram
Carriage Folk? Certainly not a fancy carriage in sight for these three! Date: 1900

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Rather drunk Australian Art Critic Date: 1890

Russian Basket Seller playing a whistle (to attract the attention of would-be basket purchasers). Date: 1902

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

Stock Exchange Notes (3 / 4) - Bear Market
Stock Exchange Notes - Bear Market - The Tone was generally poor! 1903

Two brothers and their sister in a backyard
Two brothers and their sister pose for their photograph in a rather untidy-looking backyard. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon - Two lads having a joke about their Fathers
Two young lads trade insults, each one trying to belittle each others Father. " Your Father couldn t pass the Doctor!" " Garn, yours can t pass a pub." Date: circa 1915

Cartoon - The Officers Mess
The Officers Mess! Four young boys playing at being soldiers act in a very un-soldier-like manner, eating, drinking and generally lounging about! Date: circa 1915

Recruiting for Crimea
Recruiting for the Crimean War in Charles Street, Westminster. Date: 1855

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, A Native
A Native of these islands. This scruffy, dirty looking but contented old character is apparently a stranger to soap and water, which is ironic as he casts the perfect shadow of a wash basin and jug

Gipsy boy with his horse
A gipsy boy with his horse, which he is holding by a chain round its neck

Green gipsy caravan at the side of the road
A green gipsy caravan at the side of the road, painted green with red and yellow decorations, and a blue door

Six children with a makeshift cart in a London street
Six children with a makeshift cart, on a scruffy terraced street in London. Two of the boys have bare feet

Neglected boy from a South Wales mining district
A neglected boy from a South Wales mining district. Images like this were copied by W E Jones for his father to use while campaigning for support for the Miners Union

Waifs and strays of London
A group of London waifs and strays or street arabs

Gipsy man at an encampment
A gipsy man at an encampment

Red-haired gipsy boy with a dog
A red-haired gipsy boy with a dog, at an encampment in the Newdigate area of Charlwood, Surrey

Smiling gipsy girl holding a chicken
A smiling gipsy girl holding a chicken, with a caravan in the background. Date: 1960s

Old man working on the street
An old man (possibly Spanish) working on the street. He wears a scruffy overcoat, a beret, and his glasses on a string round his neck. He has a small wooden work bench and a box of materials

Before and After, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Before (on joining) and after (ready for sea) photos of a boy recruit on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

A free water vendor, Turkey
A free water vendor, who nonetheless would always receive a token payment for his liquid provision

Old Tramp cooking his dinner
An old tramp cooking sausages in the open air over a small camp fire, surrounded by a variety of animals and with his pet Jack Russell dog sheltering beside him

Two Albanian Farmers both with long rifles, wearing goat hair jerkins and extremely scruffy leggings

The Haitian Army
The absolutely wonderful Haitian Army! Never has such a crack set of troops been assembled!! Ready for anything

Gipsy Caravan 1973
A young gipsy mother points something out to the child in her arms from the back door of a caravan. Two of her other children look happy enough, having a snack together

Gipsy Child 1973
A scruffy gypsy child with rather an angelic face

Gipsy Girl & Puppy
A scruffy but pretty little blonde gipsy girl with her hair in plaits, happy to be playing amongst the chained-up dogs and a puppy. Charlwood gipsy camp, Surrey, England

Gipsy Cad 1973
A middle-aged gipsy, smoking, with one hand tucked into his belt

Gipsy Kids & Dog 1973
A scruffy gipsy boy and girl (holding an old supermarket basket), at the back of a caravan with their dog

Gipsy Boys & Dog
Two scruffy little gipsy boys, one wearing an old school blazer and both wearing wellies. One of the boys strokes a dogs head and it laps up the affection

Girl with Pushchair
A scruffy child with a pushchair

Young Gypsy Child
A young Gypsy child with a remarkable wool hat sits atop a pile of horse tack and rags drinking from a teated milk bottle under the axel of the family caravan

Pacifist Arrested 1909
An anti-militarist agitator (depicted by this rightwing journal as a scruffy ruffian) is arrested by the police, to the approval of patriotic bystanders

Social / Krakow Market 19C
The goose market, Krakow. A prospective buyer inspecting the geese while two scruffy children look on

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