The photos, believed to be located in Kent, remind us of simpler times when children scuffed their knees and got their hands dirty instead of being cramped up indoors. Shot in 1950, the photographs were captured in the aftermath of a world war that crippled Britain financially

The people who live in this shamble of shacks and caravans earn their living, such as it is, by working on the farms of Kent during the season, and in the hop fields during the short hop harvest. The children go to local schools, when they go to school at all.

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Many of the owners who live in “caravan row” have been on the same site between ten and twenty years, and the accumulated rubbish litters the space where the children play behind their homes.