The power of photography, and why it's important to capture the past

[LouiseTopp]

Here are some shocking and fascinating photo's I found. Please tell me what you think? Thanks.

http://www.viralnova.com/weird-photos-from-history/

and also wierd jobs no longer existant

http://www.viralnova.com/jobs-that-dont-exist/

It's the one's of the little children that make me sad, children don't realise how lucky they are today. A pair of shoes meant a lot to someone who was bombed out their home.

[Downrigger]

Interesting, and in some cases, fun. Thanks for these.

[davidedric]

Erm we still have a milkman. The family has a dairy farm, milk the cows, process, bottle and deliver the milk. All from less than a mile away

[Geoff F]

Last year I produced a DVD for my local history society telling stories, with photos; like those images.

We interviewed, and recorded, 12 local residents who were aged 80 or over. Then placed suitable old images to illustrate their stories.

Most people didn't have running water inside their houses, and nearly all had outside toilets, often some distance from their houses.

Cooking was on a Lidstone Range (a coal fired stove which was made locally) or on a primus. In some cases they only had a cooking pot in a fireplace.

Heating was rather limited, and little electricity, certainly not in bedrooms.

Washing of clothes was done by heating water in a coal fired 'copper boiler' in a wash house. And that was also used to heat water for personal washing in a tin bath.

Rabbits were a regular food item, particularly during wartime.

And, in the pub this afternoon, we were remembering drinking 'scalded milk' which was heated to almost boiling point to make it keep longer; because nobody, except the local butcher etc, had any refrigeration.

Many people who were bombed out of their houses were placed in 'prefab dwellings' and considered them to be a great improvement.

I could go on and on about these stories!

[LouiseTopp]

Milkmans fashion has changed over the years. One day they'll have scanners and milk floats that really do float.

[Donald]

Erm we still have a milkman.

Yep, we have one as well. Delivers at about 3:45am each morning.

[LouiseTopp]

A lot of villages still have milkmen, surprised government cuts haven't got to those yet.

[kateveber]

40 photographs from the past are really shocking and you experience little bit crazy as well. I would like to thank you on sharing the such collection of rarely seen images.

[LouiseTopp]

I'm not really into fashion or glamoour, but I do like historic photo's. This sorts of photographs I did find shocking (I hope you didn't mind me putting this here)

Warsaw Ghetto Photographs

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...294162,00.html

The Civil War in COLOR

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...olor-time.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Color...30760113645337

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazi...-color-2013-10

http://www.vintag.es/2013/09/old-pic...orian-era.html

Now why are these mums hiding their faces?

http://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/2...graphs-or-not/