Friday, August 25, 2017

Standing Around With The Dignity Of Work


STANDING AROUND 12

I can't help looking at this old studio print of a worker without thinking of Robert Tressell's wonderful book, "The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists". Tressell wrote his book just before the outbreak of the Great War, which is about the date of this print from the "Oxford Electric Studios" in Cardiff. I have no idea who it is, but that doesn't matter: he is a man standing around with the dignity of work
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Location: Queen St, Cardiff CF10, UK

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