Description : George Davey was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Wandsworth Prison in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.
Date: 1872
Our Catalogue Reference: PCOM 2/290
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bookish in north park 39 months ago | reply
How sad is that? Life is hard. Life was even harder then.
Preston Digital Archive 39 months ago | reply
Surely the inspiration for the 'Artful Dodger'
[B a m b i] 39 months ago | reply
Woou
jentizzle 39 months ago | reply
Great selection based on not only on the image but also the back story.
JeramieOK 39 months ago | reply
Times were different. Powerful image.
Joseph Michael Photography - Carbon Decay 39 months ago | reply
thats not sad!!! That what discipline is!!!
Kids these days need even ONE DAY of hard labour and they would cry!!!!
fractalznet 39 months ago | reply
These days, of course, it would be against his human rights and a breach of health and safety regulations to hang that sign round his neck
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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
wiggiewormdog 39 months ago | reply
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wiggiewormdog 39 months ago | reply
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A Mazuna 38 months ago | reply
Too young...
CσvORiSђ 38 months ago | reply
poor ='(
Camilo Castaño [deleted] 38 months ago | reply
:(
Urbanimage 37 months ago | reply
The picture pre-dates the Daily Mail but if it had been around it's readers would no doubt have complained that he'd gotten off to lightly.
photo-geek 37 months ago | reply
so sad&haunting
potet_jp 37 months ago | reply
Typical of 19th-century British justice. It would be interesting to know if there was less delinquency then than today.
potet_jp 37 months ago | reply
In a French TV program on prisons for teenage delinquents before WWII, it was said the inmates were locked up at night in individual cages that were about the shape and size of morgue drawers for fear the kids might have sex among themselves. I wonder in what sort of hell the man who devised them now is.
Nickillass 36 months ago | reply
Awww.
Island-Life [deleted] 36 months ago | reply
When I was 14 I stole two rabbits from a small town, mom and pop zoo - for food! I'm sure this young man did the same... Wish I was there for him.... :(
eilyshaw 32 months ago | reply
George Davey??? No surely George Davis is Innocent OK!!!
Faith 197 27 months ago | reply
My heart goes out to all of those who had hardship like that in their lives. We will never truly understand their hardships. When people nowadays say "They are hard up", they really don't know the meaning of the word.
My Dad was born in 1932 in Wandsworth and told me there were streets in his child life that he would not have gone down for fear of people stealing for a crust of bread. How many people steal for a crust of bread in our day.
Trying to find out as much as I can about Wandsworth if anyone has any old photo's
Faith