Cheesy grin
In the mid to late 1970s I was employed as a Residential Social Worker at a long-stay children and young person home in a south London borough. During my stay there I took many hundreds of photos of the youngsters in my care and of the activities in which we were involved.
This is young 'SB', at the time he would have been 11 or 12 and you will notice that he has a parka coat which had become fashionable again after their well-known use by the Mods in the 1960s. He's also wearing typical 1970s very wide-legged jeans tucked into his wellies. He is posing with a cheesy grin against a cannon on the parapet of Walmer Castle. I like this photo, it shows a happy boy enjoying a memorable holiday. I'd just love to know what became of him and where he is now.
Very often a couple of members of staff would take the youngsters off for a few days out into the countryside or to the sea and it was on one such occasion that we were staying in Kent for a weekend during the autumn half term holiday.
Each youngster at the children's home had a key worker and this is one of the boys for whom I was responsible. It was my role to liaise with schools, social workers and other agencies and to look after personal needs, clothing purchases etc.
You can read some of my experiences whilst working at the home on my Wordpress blog:
opobs.wordpress.com/category/the-london-years/
This image is the copyright of © Michael John Stokes; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. Please contact me at mjs@opobs.co.uk for permission to use any of my photographs.
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Cheesy grin
In the mid to late 1970s I was employed as a Residential Social Worker at a long-stay children and young person home in a south London borough. During my stay there I took many hundreds of photos of the youngsters in my care and of the activities in which we were involved.
This is young 'SB', at the time he would have been 11 or 12 and you will notice that he has a parka coat which had become fashionable again after their well-known use by the Mods in the 1960s. He's also wearing typical 1970s very wide-legged jeans tucked into his wellies. He is posing with a cheesy grin against a cannon on the parapet of Walmer Castle. I like this photo, it shows a happy boy enjoying a memorable holiday. I'd just love to know what became of him and where he is now.
Very often a couple of members of staff would take the youngsters off for a few days out into the countryside or to the sea and it was on one such occasion that we were staying in Kent for a weekend during the autumn half term holiday.
Each youngster at the children's home had a key worker and this is one of the boys for whom I was responsible. It was my role to liaise with schools, social workers and other agencies and to look after personal needs, clothing purchases etc.
You can read some of my experiences whilst working at the home on my Wordpress blog:
opobs.wordpress.com/category/the-london-years/
This image is the copyright of © Michael John Stokes; Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws. Please contact me at mjs@opobs.co.uk for permission to use any of my photographs.
PLEASE NOTE: Before adding any of my photographs to your 'Favorites", please check out my policy on this issue on my profile.