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1 April 2010

photography & culture

The photograph that defined the class divide

In 1937, five boys were famously snapped standing outside Lord’s. But who were they, what were they doing there – and what happened to them? The answer is surprising.

A well-known quality of old photographs is their poignancy. All kinds of fates await the people in them; endings that we know and they don’t.