As suspicious as this looks, it was actually shops like this that would sell meat unfit for human consumption as food for pets.Paddington, London, 1935

#AllHailPieAndMash - C.A. & D.J. Balkwill, East India Dock Road (part of Chrisp Street Market, East #London) which is now called Eastenders Pie & Mash is brilliant place to eat even to this day. It's only when you finally find somewhere to eat a wholesome, filling meal that you realize just how rare it's become. I am regularly found at Maureen's pie and mash just around the corner but you may also find me in here. Support our traditional establishments, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because they're of high quality.

#Bristol, #England, 1936

A polite and orderly scene of impeccably well-dressed, courteous travellers departing the train at Henley Station as they make their way to the Henley Royal Regatta (boat race) sometime in the 1890s.

If anyone watched the final scene of the final episode of the #Blackadder series, you will remember a very dark and empty feeling where things suddenly didn't feel so funny. In fact, it was a stark realisation just how wasteful, cruel, and unnecessary the "Great War" really was for the members of our families whom we never got to meet. My family saw many deaths, injuries, and cases of trauma caused by the numerous wars that we had no business being part of.

The irony of so-called privilege is that historically, people in hot countries with an abundance of resources were far more privileged and lucky than the people of Europe who worked especially hard just to survive. This image is a reminder of the young children who were sent to fetch chip and paper from the match factory and to return with finished boxes. They'd be paid a mere two pence for 144 boxes having being made. This image is of a young, tired mother who has probably been working between 16-18 hours. Under the table, her child rests on a depressingly makeshift bed with a short blanket, or maybe even just a jacket for warmth. Just imagine how much more privileged they'd have been if they'd been born with the resources and warmth of far away lands. Credit should be given to their ilk instead of undermined and forgotten. They built Britain and beyond.

A truly kind person will do good things even when their own situation seems bad.

A chilling photograph of the River Tyne, #Newcastle, #England in 1879. During this time, members of my family who had not yet moved to London were walking these very streets and using this very river.

A legend in the making. 🍺