Being poor in Liverpool ... an adult to undertake. Some children would struggle to find even these unenviable tasks so would resort to selling what they could on a street. Failing that some ...

Dr. Hawkins noted that respiratory problems and tubercular disease were rife among the young Glaswegian patients because of the poor ... Street, Evelina and Alexandra hospitals for children ...

From bedraggled youngsters posing on the kerb to others standing around a fountain, this remarkable series of photographs reveals the desperate lives of poor children in Victorian Britain.

Liverpool's status as one of the world's major ports created an underclass of forgotten street children ... harsh on the poor and vulnerable in Victorian Britain. Women and children were often ...