Three school children digging potatoes, Ellis Gardens, Kilmarnock

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 222/1/9/8
• Dates of Creation:1939
• Name of Creator:
  Photographed by J Gibson
• Physical Description:
  25.7 x 20.4 centimetres 1 b/w photograph,

• Scope and Content

  The photograph depicts three children working on an allotment. The boy is turning up potatoes with a garden fork while the two girls collect them and place them into a basket. Written on the back in pencil is "School Children, Kilmarnock" and stamped across the back is "J. Gibson, Press Photographer, (Late Park Road), Dalnottarhill Road, Old Kilpatrick, Near Glasgow. Phone WEST 6700".

  Documents in UGC 222/1/9/1 note that the education authority had six plots at Ellis Gardens, Kilmarnock, where school children were taught how to cultivate flowers and vegetables, and that images were taken by "Mr Gibson, photographer" in 1939.

• Related Material

  See also UGC 222/1/9/11.