#adelaide springett

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Adelaide Springett by Horace Warner, 1901.

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“When Adelaide Springett had her portrait taken by Horace Warner in 1900 she was so ashamed of her boots that she would only agree to the photograph if she took them off.

Adelaide Springett was born in February 1893 in the parish of St George-in-the-East, Wapping. Her father, William Springett came from Marylebone and her mother Margaret from St Lukes, Old St. Both parents were costermongers, although William was a dock labourer when he first married. Adelaide’s twin sisters, Ellen and Margaret, died at birth and another sister, Susannah, died aged four. Adelaide attended St Mary’s School and then St Joseph’s School. The addresses on her school admissions were 12 Miller’s Court, Dorset St, and then 26 Dorset St. In 1901, at eight years old, she was recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St. Adelaide Springett died in 1986 in Fulham aged ninety-three, without any traceable relatives, and the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Social Services Department was her executor”

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Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph.

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Adelaide Springett

by Horace Warner

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Who Was Adelaide Springett? – The Chiddicks Family Tree

Who Was Adelaide Springett?

Another iconic picture and another innocent life captured forever behind a lens, but who was the poor little girl whose life was perpetually

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Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. Adapted from Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner, published by Spitalfields Life Books, £20.