Horace Warner

Here is another set of Mr. Warner's photos of London's East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. 

 In this image, captioned “Quite Clean ’Nuff”, 

a boy washes his face in a Spitalfields yard

  

 Jeremiah Donovan, six, was nicknamed 

'Dick Whittington' because of his pet cat

  

 Joey Lyons and Nellie Slark - the story book

  

 The “Sisters Ellis” wear matching dresses, probably made 

by their mother, a worker in the garment trade

  

 

 Spitalfields Nippers

Horace Warner

In 1901-2, Horace Warner took photos of East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. A self-taught photographer in his personal life – and a wallpaper printer for William Morris in his professional – Warner took 240 photographs of the local children, of which only 30 survive. Here is a brief film about Mr. Warner and his work.

 A girl wears a fine dress from an earlier era, 

probably obtained at the nearby Houndsditch rag market

  

 Annie, seven and one-year-old Nellie sit sad and hungry 

on sacking outside their house in Spitalfields

  

 At the Whitechapel Gallery to see the Burne Jones exhibition, 1901

  

 Brothers

  

Celia Compton

  

In Pearl St (now Calvin St)