Refreshment time at Queens Park c1900s

The photographer, George Ruff, specialised in images of working class children in the early 1900s. Clearly the refreshment in Queens Park available here, was only a large bottle of water, or was it milk and water to be shared out,

Simple enjoyment

I chose this image because it echoed personal memories of visits to Preston Park in Liverpool when I was a child. Like the young girl helping the toddler to a drink, I was responsible for the group of children on our park visits. Like the children in the photograph, we only generally took water; bread and butter very rarely was an extra treat. But as in our 1950s outings, these children enjoyed their simple park excursions; the passing of 50 years changed little.