Friday 24 August 2012

Mugshots




The background to these 1930s police mugshots is that they turned up in a junk shop in north east England and were donated to the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museum who uploaded them to Flickr whence they have gone viral. There's something morbidly fascinating about this collection of down at heel - and presumably long dead - petty criminals. The guy above should have been told that if you are going to wear a tie then a collar as well is a good idea.



The one above is very strange. One thing the mugshots have in common is that the subjects are downright hideous and this guy is no exception. The manuscript note is very odd though: 'Died in action Benwell Hotel'. Now of course 'died in action' would suggest dying in combat but our man was born in 1878 and would have been much to old to see action in World War Ii which would have been the only candidate. The Benwell Hotel, Mr Google tells me, is a pub in Newcastle upon Tyne. The only sense I can make of the note is that our man was killed either committing a crime at the Benwell Hotel or died in a pub fight and black police humour has taken over.



Most of the subjects just look rather crushed but this guy looks cocky. Presumably pleased as his sad nickname the 'Sunderland Kid'. It's notable how many were tattooed (see 'Marks'), which would have been relatively rare then, I think.



This guy looks like the young Peter Hitchens. Perhaps he is - follow the link to see Hitchens having a hilarious - erm - difference of opinion with Russell Brand. I like 'general thief and bad character'.





This guy cracks me up. He looks such a wide-boy. Probably not too good at crime though. Maybe should have stuck to gardening. And who was Evelyn and how did she feel about his bad life? Okay that's enough long dead villains ...


25 comments:

Verdant Earl said...

That last guy looks like he should be hanging around with Gromit.

white rabbit said...

Earl - Indeed 'Porridge today, Gromit. It's Tuesday'.

Indigo Roth said...

Bloody fantastic, Mr. Rabbit! Are there more? Can we see a part two on the horizon?! Indigo

Malcolm Cinnamond said...

Isn't No. 3 Chris Packham from BBC's Springwatch?

white rabbit said...

Mr Indigo - Yes, there are more. But I was thinking of posting them on a dating site. Bound to work ;)

white rabbit said...

Malc (and Mr Indigo) - welcome to my humble blog. Not sure about Springwatch. I stopped watching it after Kate Humble stopped being on it :(

JoJo said...

Those're some characters!!! The guy that died in action probably was in a firefight at the hotel. But if it was a war, wouldn't he have been old enough to have served in the Boer War?

savannah said...

yikes, sugar! but i have to say, they're far more interesting looking than the thugs posted in mugshots locally! xoxoxoxo

Unknown said...

Ah, in the days when only boys got caught by the police... feminism has lead to a slight drop in standards for the female criminal elite
Beautiful blog post - thanks w

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Mrs. Hall said...

so bizzare. these are fascinating. any more, or maybe a link to them?

simply wondered said...

you want more? just nip up to newcastle - we geordies all look pretty much like that.

Memphis said...

We have quite a lot of mugshots in the Memphis papers and one thing I've noticed over the years is what a disproportionate large number of criminals are shorter than average. I don't know why that is, but it seems to be generally true.

Daisy Deadhead said...

The Hitchens lookalike also reminds me a bit of the TWILIGHT star... he would make a great vampire-teenybopper idol. :)

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