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58 photos and 21 illustrations tagged spectacles, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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Horse and cart, Newcastle upon Tyne

from North East Museums

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Mike Gerrish said:

  This is fantastic!!

• divergent curtain said:

  A nice 1970's image. I find it interesting that the adult male is also wearing "flares". Where I come from he would have been considered an old guy trying to look young.

• AbrashTX said:

  Fascinating stuff... at first I thought the photo was taken in the 1930s, then I noticed the boy is wearing bell bottoms!

• mikescottnz said:

  Great very 'Steptoe & Son' when the tv series ran?

• Gosforth Photography said:

  Absolutely love this. Street photography at it's peak. "Oi, tinker. Fancy posing for a few minutes while I get set up and if you don't mind, put your best menacing face on?" . I could imagine doing that now with a couple of grands worth of stuff strapped to your back in the current climate?

Mother & Son

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 23 older comments, and then…
• Swordscookie said:

  WOW!!! What a lovely photograph of the mother and her son. I could look at that all day and marvel at the image. A poet in his finery with the loving mother by his side, dressed in their day to day clothes and posing for the gentleman/woman with the camera. Look at the hat on the ground, at the weather beaten skin on their faces and hands, the long strong fingers of the man and the well worn shoes on the pair of them? Magic!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Swordscookie And her wedding ring has become very loose on her fingers as they've shrunk with age... Did check to see if we have a copy of that poem in our collections, but if we do, it's not individually catalogued. Maybe in our collections of street poems and ballads.

• Swordscookie said:

  On Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Brigid's_Well it says that a wandering poet once wrote - "On St Brigid’s Eve, as night fell, My mother and I went to Saint Brigid’s Well, Where the candles do burn and the great walls do shine on the graves of the dead and the vaults of O’Brien" Could those be the words of our Poet friend above? It would be great to find out and get the entire text.

• @ltin zaçe said:

  great old photography ...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Swordscookie Wouldn't that be amazing?

Gil Blas Visita il Dottor Sangrado: = Gil Blas Rend Visite au Docteur Sangrado =: Gil Blas Visit Doctor Sangrado: = Gil Blas Rend Visite au Docteur Sangrado

from National Library of Medicine

• Brian J. Hunt said:

  I believe the abstract here is for one of the other pictures.