black and white photograph of young children with mouths open in front of them, all wearing baseball caps

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Who needs a Playstation? Pictures of an age when happiness was a stick of chalk and a pair of mum's big shoes...

Taken around Manchester in the Sixties, these newly discovered black-and-white images are an evocative portrait of an age when poverty was rife but communities made their own entertainment.

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