This set, from the collections of the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum, contains mugshots of boys and girls under the age of 21. This reflects the fact that until 1970 that was the legal age of majority in the U.K.
The crimes range mostly from sleeping outdoors — punishable by up to a to a month of hard labor under the Vagrancy Act of 1824 — to the theft of morsels of food, cigarettes or small valuables.
(via Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)
The crimes range mostly from sleeping outdoors — punishable by up to a to a month of hard labor under the Vagrancy Act of 1824 — to the theft of morsels of food, cigarettes or small valuables.
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| Alfred Yarrow, arrested for stealing from his mother, 9 February 1905 |
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| Benjamin McMurdo, arrested for shopbreaking, 17 September 1902 |
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| Charles Johnson, arrested for stealing sash weights, 10th September 1904 |
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| David Lloyd, arrested for stealing brushes and a box, 10 November 1902 |
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| Edward Roberts, arrested for stealing from a gas meter, 7 February 1905 |
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| Frederick Mudd, arrested for stealing money, 3 April 1905 |
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| George Burn, arrested for stealing brushes and a box, 10 November 1902 |
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| George Thompson, arrested for stealing from a ship chandler's store, 6 October 1903 |
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| George Wilson, arrested for stealing from his father, 16 December 1904 |
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| Gilbert Wheatley, arrested for loitering with intent to commit a felony, 7 July 1904 |
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| John Dowson, arrested for stealing from a gas meter, 7 February 1905 |
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| John Fatherley, arrested for stealing from a ship chandler's store, 6 October 1903 |
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| John T. Keating, arrested for stealing sash weights, 10th September 1904 |
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| John William Atkinson, arrested for breaking and entering on a refreshment shop, 28 July 1904 |
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| Joseph Tombling, arrested for obtaining money by false pretences, 4 February 1905 |
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| Margaret Ann O'Brien, arrested for obtaining money by false pretences, 6 August 1904 |
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| Margaret Leadbitter, arrested for stealing money from other children, 16 August 1904 |
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| Oscar Carlson, arrested for stealing a packet of tobacco from the same shop, 15 June 1903 |
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| Susan Joice, arrested for stealing money from a gas meter, 18th August 1903 |
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| Thomas Kane, arrested for stealing a pony, harness and cart, 6 August 1904 |
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| Thomas Wallace, arrested for indecent exposure, 17 February 1905 |
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| William Balmer, arrested for shopbreaking, 17 September 1902 |
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| William Morrissey alias Smith, arrested for sleeping rough, 11 July 1904 |
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| William Wadham, arrested for sleeping rough, 11 July 1904 |
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| William Wilson, arrested for stealing fish, 7 February 1905 |
(via Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)
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