Life seems to be changing at an ever-increasing pace for our children as they wrestle with the pros and cons of technology and an increasingly commercialised society. They seem to be either glued to a screen for an unhealthy amount of time or competing to have the very latest this or that to keep up with their peers.
What happened to playing in the streets all day until your mum called you in for tea? And shouts of ‘you’re either in or out’ and ‘shut the door behind you’? Ah, simpler times.
Of course, kids still play out, but they have more indoor options to choose from now. Sending a child to their room used to be a punishment, now it means 12 hours straight of Fortnight or Roblox.
Anyway, join us as we take a journey from the past to present with a series of stirring images of kids playing outside in Liverpool streets - from as far back as 1890.
5. Two young girls arrange flowers in a small dockland garden on the banks of the River Mersey, in 1949
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6. Boys playing a game of pitch and toss at the corner of Byram Street and Scotland Road, Liverpool, in 1895.
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7. A young boy balances along the wall to the back yard of his home in Powis Street, one of the ‘Welsh Streets’ in Toxteth.
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8. A group of kids playing a game of street football on the Juvenal Gardens estate in 1971.
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