Gardening at St Saviour's Child Garden, Canongate

Category

Library Item

Item no

17816

Title

Gardening at St Saviour's Child Garden, Canongate

Description

A group of schoolchildren are gardening. They are working on a raised section of planting. They are wearing matching overalls and holding gardening tools and watering cans. Their female teacher stands in the centre behind the children.

Artist / maker

Inglis, Francis Caird

Date

1909

Size

10.7 x 15.4 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This is a photograph from 'The Life History of a Slum Child' focusing on the community living in the Canongate. Accompanying text reads, "Mothered and taught by trained discipline and love - with flowers to tend as eagerly and carefully as they themselves are tended, how different is the opening view of life."
St Saviours began in 1906 in Brown's Close and moved to Chessels Court in 1908. Diary of a Free Kindergarten by Lileen Hardy was published in 1912 and records daily life in the Kindergarten and can be read online via the Library of Congress. The images taken for the Diary of a Free Kindergarten were taken by Francis Caird Inglis and many are the same or very similar to those within this exhibition and taken from 'The Life History of a Slum Child'.

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Landscape > Landscape architectural facilities > Gardens

People > Adults > Women

People > Children > Schoolchildren

Places > Edinburgh areas > Canongate

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh