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.
21. Miss Peggy Robertshaw stops to talk to three children playing in the street as she walks her daily 12 miles around Liverpool, testing shoes. Peggy works for Dunlop of Speke, and since 1927 has covered over 72,000 miles.
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22. Children play football outside Everton’s Goodison Park stadium, in 2014.
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23. Two young boys play on the benches outside St George’s Hall during the teacher strike in 2014.
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24. Children play football in the street outside Klopps Guest House, in 2019.
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