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Spitalfields nippers: London's poorest children in the early 1900s. The photos were taken by amateur photographer Horace Warner. 
Thomas Neale, born on 1 September 1891. The family originated from Aspenden, Hertfordshire, and his father was a horse groom. Eliza, his mother, died from exhaustion in 1897. Tommy and his two brothers fought in the WW1 – he was killed on the battlefield on 9 October 1917.
Charlie Long was born on 10 November 1892, the youngest of eight, to his father, William, an eating house keeper, and mother, Ann.
Nellie and Annie Lyons Born in 1901 and 1895, the ninth and sixth of 10 children of Annie Daniels and William Lyons, both street hawkers. Only half the Lyons children survived into adulthood.
Adelaide Springett, born in February 1893 in Wapping, both her parents were street sellers. Her twin sisters died at birth; another sister died aged four. Adelaide’s last known address was recorded in 1901 when, aged 8, she lodged with her mother at a Salvation Army shelter.
