Filth
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The Festival of Grime Collection #5
Another collection of pre-carnival floats. Notice how, alongside various insects, they also celebrated the pig. At risk of sounding condescending to our dear readers, it is no coincidence that they also chose a pig to represent their struggle for survival in an age when making it past the age of five was a miracle. At…
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The Festival of Grime Collection #4
We return to the festival which celebrates northern pride, grit and determination. This time we are archiving photographs of the carnival floats which took a huge amount of time to construct and involved numerous people in the communities coming together. These photographs were taken in and around the Lancashire towns circa 1880 several days before…
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The Festival of Grime Collection #3
This is the last collection of the Festival of Grime photographs for a while as we have been cleaning up some images we can’t wait to share with the world. No background information necessary. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Have a splendid day. TVUP
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The Festival of Grime Collection #2
Some more delightful images from the Festival of Grime for you. The costumes of the moth children in photograph #4 and the stick insect in photograph #7 are my personal favourites. However, the carnival float of an Indian elephant in photograph #8 is also impressive. Such a rig would have taken many hours of hard…
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The Big Smoke Collection #1
As the Industrial Revolution steamrolled ahead, London’s microclimate became increasingly unbearable for the couple of million people living there. The year 1876 was particularly gruelling. From a sanitary viewpoint, civilisation was still wearing nappies. The sewerage system was minimal, the streets were littered with rotten vegetables alongside dead animals and birds, and people’s waste could…
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