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It is a walking shot of twin girls, Barbara and Doreen Wilson, age 10 year old and their grandparents taken at the beach. The twins were brought up by their grandparents after the premature death of their mother, shortly after they were born. In the photograph the twins are holding ice-cream cones and are sporting matching outfits of berets, double-breasted blazers, patterned knee-length skirts and T-bar leather shoes. Their grandfather is in a three-piece suit and flat cap and their grandmother wears a woollen overcoat and cloche hat, both are holding umbrellas. The photograph was taken by the seaside photography company ‘The Sunbeam Photograph Ltd’ based in Margate, England.","physicalDescription":"Card mounted, sepia photograph of twin girls walking by the seaside, flanked by their grandparents. The twins are holding ice-cream cones and are sporting matching outfits of berets, double-breasted blazers, patterned knee-length skirts and T-bar leather shoes. Their grandfather is in a three-piece suit and flat cap and their grandmother wears a woollen overcoat and cloche hat, both are holding umbrellas. At the bottom left of the photograph is the reference no. V9248. On the reverse of the photograph are the photography company's details: ‘The Sunbeam Photograph Ltd. 82 Swevn  Road, Margate’. ","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"The Sunbeam Photograph Ltd","id":"AUTH335555"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"The photograph was taken by ‘The Sunbeam Photograph Ltd. 82 Swevn  Road, Margate’. During the summer months the company captured staged  and walking photographs of holiday-makers by the seaside and sold them in  kiosks along the beaches. At its peak the company employed up to 300  workers and they could take up to 35,000 images a day. In 1972 Sunbeam  was bought out by LRC plc and then taken over by United Photographic  Laboratories. Three years later in 1975 UPL closed the firm."}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"photograph, card","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2015HP0448","2015HP0450"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES324060"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Ramsgate","id":"x35031"},"association":{"text":"manufactured","id":"x29350"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"09/1933","earliest":"1933-09-01","latest":"1933-09-30"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Barbara Horgan","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Sepia photograph of 10 year old twins, Barbara and Doreen Wilson with their grandparents in Ramsgate, England, September 1933.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Ramsgate","id":"x35031"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Horgan, Barbara","id":"AUTH326839"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["B.107-2014"],"accessionNumberNum":"107","accessionNumberPrefix":"B","accessionYear":2014,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2015-05-05","availableToBook":false}}