Figure 1.-- Here we see another unidentified group of children. The dealer was British, but she has no idea where it came from. Dealers primarily source their photographs from their own country, but many handle iages from other countries. This group of younger children could have come from England, but we are not at all sure. The long stockings argue against that. Long stockings were worn in England, but not very commonly by the 1920s and this photigraph is clearly more recent than that. We are not even sure about the date. Our best guess would be the 1940s, but the late-30s or early-50s is a definite possibility. The boy's shirt at the right looks like the 50s. We would also guess that the group is German, primarily because if the long stockings.
Here we see another unidentified group of children. The dealer was British, but she has no idea where it came from. Dealers primarily source their photographs from their own country, but many handle iages from other countries. This group of younger children could have come from England, but we are not at all sure. The long stockings argue against that. Long stockings were worn in England, but not very commonly by the 1920s and this photigraph is clearly more recent than that. We are not even sure about the date. Our best guess would be the 1940s, but the late-30s or early-50s is a definite possibility. The boy's shirt at the right looks like the 50s. We would also guess that the group is German, primarily because if the long stockings. But the clothing in general have a German look to us. Now long stockings were worn into the 1960s in Eastern Europe, but the clothing here looks more like Western Europe. Another complication is that after World War II, German children began wearing patterned knee socks.
A reader writes, "Refugee children I think. I date it at the late 1940s. I suspect that they are a group of children brought to the UK from a European country who need a holiday from the harsh readjustment brought by the ending of World War II. The girl with the dolls suggests an arrival photograph in which gifts have been handed out. But care has been taken to hide the place where the children have been taken." Yes the curioius hanging in the background is raher curious.
