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Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. Adapted from Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner, published by Spitalfields Life Books, £20. Vintage Children Photos, Vintage Pictures, Old Pictures, Vintage Images, Old Photos, Life Pictures, Children Pictures, Calvin Et Hobbes, Portrait Vintage

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Portraits of the Spitalfields Nippers taken by photographer in book

Their boots barely hang together. Their clothes are ragged hand-me-downs. And for most a hot bath is a distant memory. These London youngsters lived amid deprivation, violence a...
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Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. Adapted from Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner, published by Spitalfields Life Books, £20.

Vintage Children Photos

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Children Pictures

Calvin Et Hobbes

Portrait Vintage

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Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. Adapted from Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner, published by Spitalfields Life Books, £20.

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