Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside

[editor]

There's some wonderful snaps here:

Idyllic Victorian Photos of the 1850s English Countryside - Flashbak

 

[Pickman's model]

Doesn't look that idyllic to me

Good pictures tho

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Doesn't look that idyllic to me

I was thinking that too
The child in the cradle looks about 15 yrs old .....Poor thing.
But the photos are good.

 

[Saul Goodman]

There's some wonderful snaps here:

He looks like he just walked off the set of Trumpton or Camberwick Green.

 

[planetgeli]

I have a far more idyllic photo taken from my cottage around 1910 than the above. Has to be said, view hasn’t changed in 100 years, though fashions have. Mainly because there appeared to be no fashion in 1910.

 

[a_chap]

 

[Baronage-Phase]

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Brilliant

 

[weltweit]

Nope, not idyllic at all.

But interesting nonetheless.

 

[weltweit]

What was it said about live in the olden days: hard brutal and short ?