Urchins Collection

Girls with their books in Balham, SW London
Four girls with their books and drawings, sitting on a pavement in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys outside a sweet shop, Balham, SW London
Four boys on the doorstep of a sweet shop in Balham, SW London, with bottled drinks. Date: circa 1961

St Georges Square, Pimlico, London - the east side viewed from the Embankmant

Claverton Street Chapel, Pimlico, London (now demolished)

Children doing handstands on a Balham street, SW London
Two children, a boy and a girl, doing handstands against a concrete wall on a Balham street, SW London. A smaller child watches them, backed into a corner. Date: circa 1961

Children with ice lollies on a Balham street, SW London
Five children eating ice lollies in the doorway of a betting shop on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - A Duel
A duel - three street urchins help their friend to mimic the statue! Manneken Pis (Dutch for little pee man ), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a very famous Brussels landmark

Little boy lifts his jumper, Balham, SW London
A little boy lifting his jumper on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Children doing handstands on a Balham street, SW London
Two children, a boy and a girl, doing handstands against a concrete wall on a Balham street, SW London. A smaller child watches them, backed into a corner. Date: circa 1961

Drunken man staggering home - about to hit lampost
Racing Illustrated - " Some delay at the post!" - a gentleman who has had a serious session at the Old Blue Bell (see 10909661) endeavours to make his way home

Girls with dolls and prams, Balham, SW London
Two little girls with dolls and prams on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Girl with doll in pram, Balham, SW London
A little girl hugs her doll in a pram on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Street music: a family of singers
A pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870

Bessborough Gardens, London
Bessborough Gardens, Pimlico, London. The corner with Roehampton Street

Children in Falls Road area, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A group of children in the Falls Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Boy with bicycle wheel, Balham, SW London
A little boy with a bicycle wheel on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Merthyr Tydfil boys playing
Two boys play on a bench above the steel works (now closed) at Merthyr Tydfil. Vintage black and white image. First published The Sunday Times c1989 1989

Maypole dancing early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Girl looking in sweet shop window Victorian period Date: 19th century

Box organ and family Victorian period Date: 19th century

Classroom in school Victorian period Date: 19th century

Boy or girl with toy horse Studio photo Victorian period Date: 19th century

Dublin street children Victorian period Date: 19th century

Street Urchins Victorian period Date: 19th century

Rural children playing Victorian period Date: 19th century

Engineering apprentices Victorian period Date: 19th century

Children asleep on the beach Victorian period Date: 19th century

Boy with hoop and stick Victorian period Date: 19th century

Boys fishing on a pier early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Ice-cream Stall Victorian period Date: 19th century

Boy with telescope probably 1940s Date: circa 1940s

Dartmoor Children playing on stone bridge early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Street children in London, Victorian period

Steamer excursions poster, Glasgow, Victorian period

Gossips by Frank Reynolds - Union Jack Club Date: 1907

Irish gentleman in his cell, Dublin prison, 1821
Irish gentleman in his cell with other inmates, Dublin prison, 1821. Captain Blake introduces a ragged exciseman. Sheriffs Prison - Introducing Swan the Exciseman

Fossils of extinct sea urchins: Echinocorys (Ananchites) 1, Galerites globulosus 2, and Nucleolites patella 3. Ananchite ovale, Galerite globuloso, Nucleolite patella

Fossil Mososaurus skull and fish palates
Fossil skull of an extinct Mososaurus found at Mstricht 1, and palates of extinct fish 2-5. Mascella del Mososauro trovata a Maestricht, Palati di differenti specie di pesci ignoti

Title page with vignette from Knorrs Deliciae
Title page with vignette of Tritons with corals, shells and sea urchins in a border of reptiles and birds. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Robert Muys from Georg Wolfgang Knorrs Deliciae

Echinoidea sea urchins: sea biscuit, Clypeaster rosaceus 1, 2, Encope emarginata 3, 4, green sea urchin, Echinocyamus pusillus 5-9

Sea urchins and spines
Sea urchins, red 1, green 2, 5, yellow 6, brown 3, 4, and spines 7-11. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Poster, Two Little Vagabonds, Royal Princesss Theatre
Poster, Two Little Vagabonds by Sims and Shirley, touring from the Royal Princesss Theatre, London. 1897

Three scruffy boys watch the men digging up the road in Piccadilly

Comic postcard - Two Street Urchins with their soapbox racer
Comic postcard - She ain t exactly a Rolls Royce, but she rolls fine don t she? 1934

WAIFS HEADING TO MISSION
Two street Arabs from the streets of London make for the Edinburgh Castle mission in Limehouse where they will be fed. Date: 1895

Four young boys playing a game with a stick and a stone Date: late 19th century

SEE-SAW / LATE C19TH
A group of children enjoy a makeshift see-saw fashioned from a wooden barrel and a plank of wood taken from a nearby building site Date: late 19th century

STREET ARABS / EGG IN CAP
Three street boys play a game of Egg in the Cap: An egg is thrown into a cap, the owner of which must attempt to strike one of his fellow players as they flee Date: late 19th century

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