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Castor Oil capsules
Tin of castor oil capsules
Tin "Palatable worm cakes".
Tin of worm cakes
'Street Scene' with late Victorian terraced houses, stucco and brick with railings. In the streets children play, skip and push prams. A man sits on his window sill cleaning his windows. 'Any London Street'. The painting from this etching was taken was used by Nevinson as an illustration in his autobiography 'Paint and Prejudice' (1937). There the painting is titled 'Any London Street' and it was in the ownership of Sir Alexander Park Lyle.
Etching
The exterior of Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street - remains of old Greyfriars Monastry. Four boy in the long blue coats and yellow stockings stand outside, one playing with a ball. The Hospital was founded in 1553 by Edward VI for orphans and became known as the 'Blue Coat School'. Signed and dated.
Watercolour
Family in a shelter, Swiss Cottage. Nearly all are asleep. First Aid kit clearly visible on the shelf. Printed at the MoL in November 1985 by Alex Werner. Two duplicate prints are located in box 195B
Engraving
'Down the Garden' 1912 by Spencer Gore, depicting Gore's back garden at 2 Houghton Place, on the south side of Harrington Square. Signed bottom right: SF Gore.
Oil on canvas
Band of Hope badge, award presented to West London Band of Hope Prize choir 1909; red ribbon and tassle on gold bar.
Badge
Charity school doll dressed in the uniform of the Home of Female Orphans, Lisson Grove. With bisque head, painted features, fixed blue glass eyes, open mouth showing four teeth and blonde mohair wig. Back of neck has maker's mark, mold number and size number 'S & H 4000 P.B. 4/0a'. Body and limbs of jointed composition and wood. Dressed in clothes of cotton and wool including blue wool shoulder cape, brown dress, underskirts, brown leather lace up shoes and knitted socks.
Charity school doll
Beneath Southwark Bridge From Reid's Views of Westminster & London
Photograph
Cleaning shells for manufacture - a home industry (Neg. No. 11876)
Photograph
Register entry: Souvenir handkerchief commemorating the Boy Scout's jamboree, Olympia, July 1920.
Souvenir handkerchief
Classroom scene. One of 25 photographs by Humphrey Spender showing scenes of working class life in London in the 1930's. Spender was influenced by the idea that many of the social problems in poor urban areas were due to sub-standard housing. He felt that the right architectural principles might solve some of the problems he saw.
Photograph
Lismore Circus Estate. From a set of photographs of Kentish Town taken by Michael Abrahams in 1975.
Photograph
A nanny and her charge at the Round Pond (Kensington Park Gardens) feeding the ducks and swans. One of 25 photographs by Humphrey Spender showing scenes of working class life in London in the 1930's. Spender was influenced by the idea that many of the social problems in poor urban areas were due to sub-standard housing. He felt that the right architectural principles might solve some of the problems he saw.
Photograph
'Coach-built' perambulator with metal bodywork and springs painted blue and mounted on four wheels (two larger and two smaller) with foldaway blue fabric hood and cover, detachable white sun canopy, blue fabric shopping bag attached and detachable seat for a young child on top of the pram. There is a pillow, mattress and string of plastic beads inside the pram, 1960s.
Baby's pram
football fans, Highbury This set of photos was purchased from the photographer, Roger Perry, in November 1977 for £44. Most of the photos were commissioned for features in Time Out Magazine between 1971 and 1976, though not all were used. Specific dates for each photograph are available.
Photograph
street in Poplar c.1935 Cyril Arapoff collection
Photograph
Children playing around a Ford popular motor car. One of a series of scenes of working class family life in London in the 1930s. Purchased from the photographer, Humphrey Spender on 18 September, 1982.
Photograph
Art Sabotage is part of a series of paintings that began with Piddock's show at the Fine Art Society in 1999, entitled 'Gallery Fiction'. This painting is rare in that series at it refers to an actual event in a gallery rather than troping a London gallery space with Old Master paintings. Here Piddock is reacting the vandalism of Marcus Harvey's painting of Myra Hindley made up of children's hand prints which was displayed at the Royal Academy Brit Pack show 'Sensation' in 1999. Instead of showing the event in situ (another of Piddock's works shows this scene), the artist has taken the event out of context and restaged at the top of the back stairs of the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly. In flattened tones, and deep perspective, the effect is a striking statement about the contemporary arts in London and the relationship between the Brit Pack and the establishment (RA). The work is much influenced by modern advertising media.
Oil on board
East End children in street. Photograph from the Cyril Arapoff collection. Arapoff freelanced for various magazines which published extended photo-stories and carried out personal documentary projects, several of which were concerned with life in London.
Photograph
East End children, c.1935. Photograph from the Cyril Arapoff collection. Arapoff freelanced for various magazines which published extended photo-stories and carried out personal documentary projects, several of which were concerned with life in London.
Photograph
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Children

In 1900 children were legally viewed as little adults; they could smoke and drink alcohol but could also be sent to adult prisons.  In poorer families, they were often obliged to work.  A 1900 survey into child labour in London showed 25% of all children aged 5-13 had part time jobs or worked at home making goods like brushes or paper flowers.  Children from poorer families often missed days from school to work. Girls in particular, were needed at home to care for younger siblings.  It was legal for children to start full time work at just 12.

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