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33 Wonderful Black and White Vintage Photos of British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s _ Ukhistorical

   
The United Kingdom in the 1980s was a time of turmoil, with severe recession and mass unemployment leading to widespread distress and resistance.
 
While working as a staff photographer for The Militant Newspaper, Dave Sinclair visited Belfast, London, Newcastle and Bradford and took pictures of the children in the cities whose lives were affected by social and political changes. Still, they carried on hanging out and playing on the streets with such carefree expressions, as wonderfully captured in Sinclair's photographs. Take a look:

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s
 

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

 

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s
 

British Kids Playing on the Streets in the 1980s

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