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You don't hear many criminals saying that nowadays: “I don’t know anything about it but I take all responsibility”.

A very clear image with lots of character to it. What's interesting about these police mugshots is that it shows crime has always happened - personally I don't think 'The Good old Days' existed. Instead, I think times were very hard and even making small sums of money illegally happened often. No welfare state existed back then and when work was slack or health was poor then people took desperate measures..

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye] I don't think anybody argues that there was no crime in the past, but what is striking is the amount of attention from the police and the press these relatively small property crimes attract. Also the hard punishments are noteworthy. It would be difficult to find a police station where you can report such crimes nowadays, let alone that they will be brought to court.

Michiel2005 I still hear older folk complaining 'it was never like that in the past'.. I agree though - petty crime but we need to remember that a coat or two kitchen knives was often all folk had. That amplified the severity of the crimes. Imagine finding you have no coat mid-winter and no money to buy one.

A professional woman with confidence and knowledge.

Dr. Alice Kirke was closely associated with the Presbyterian Church in North Queensland and at Ipswich and Wynnum. She practised in Ipswich for 20 years and acted as a consultant shortly before her death in 1941. She was the wife of the Reverend G.K. Kirke. Cypress trees have been planted at the front entry of St. Stephen's Church, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia by the Womens Guild in memory of Alice Kirke, their late president. (Information from monumentaustralia.org.au)

Surely the date of this photo is in the 1980s and not the 1970s? The computer being used looks more like something you might have seen in the early 1980s. Hope I'm not wrong.

You are correct. I seem to recognize a Apollo graphical workstation and a rotring scribe