‘258, Seesaws, Biggar Bank, Walney Island’. Early 1900’s. Edward Sankey © Sankey Family Photography Collection. All rights reserved

Seesaws, Biggar Bank

Circa early 1900's

written by Stephe Cove

Children appear in many of the Sankey images. This is one of the few I’ve come across where they are completely unaware of the photographer and so they’re acting quite naturally. If you zoom in to the little girl to the right of the fulcrum, you can almost hear her squealing as her side of the seesaw throws her forward and down.

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