The photographs appearing on this page will
change from time to time. They are not meant to be especially representative of events
happening in the early twenties, but I hope they'll prove informative, interesting, or
even amusing on occasion.
One nation or two
The above pictures
were both taken in the early 1920s. The first shows children scavenging for
coal near a Lancashire colliery. The second - taken somewhere in the south
of England - shows a group of children of similar age enjoying a riding
lesson.
Strong medicine!
This picture was taken in Lichfield in 1919. The
schoolboys have clearly been lined up to take some unpleasant medicine, possibly a patent
remedy against them catching 'flu which was still a real problem at this time.
For King and
country....
King George V is seen in jovial mood at a review
of ex-servicemen in Hyde Park in 1919. By all accounts, however, not every one of the
20,000 discharged soldiers in the crowd were happy, and some time after this picture was
taken there were noisy protests about unemployment amongst ex-soldiers.
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