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[Pete Askew]

From the BBC News website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29521098

 

[Glenn Clabo]

From the BBC News website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29521098

Excellent Pete. Thanks.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Never heard of him. Those shirts are worth seeing. Fine shot.

 

[Tom Dunne]

Very enjoyable Pete, thanks for pointing it out.

In the same vein if you like, some good nostalgia/memory lane stuff in today's Guardian online;

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...street-photographer-shirley-baker-in-pictures

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks for that link, Tom. My childhood came flooding back, especially this picture. That's exactly how I remember my toddler years. I was pushed around in a pram exactly like that, and well remember the streets full of kids playing, and the ever-present ice-cream van. One man in our street worked in such a van, and he would give us all free ices when it came to throwing out the out-of-date stuff. Heaven.

 

[Pete Askew]

They made good go-karts too - the prams not the ice creams! Try making one out of a modern buggy!

Thanks Tom.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I couldn't agree more. From pram to buggy - the course of a childhood well spent.

 

[Tom Dunne]

and they had mighty suspension and shock absorbers on those prams!

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks, Pete. Stunning images!

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks for that link, Tom. My childhood came flooding back, especially this picture. That's exactly how I remember my toddler years. I was pushed around in a pram exactly like that, and well remember the streets full of kids playing, and the ever-present ice-cream van. One man in our street worked in such a van, and he would give us all free ices when it came to throwing out the out-of-date stuff. Heaven.

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Brings back similar memories for me, too. Except the tenements in our street were rather tall, 4-story ones. But teeming with millions of kids and hundreds of women hanging out windows gabbing with other women.