Every Face Tells A Story

A Daily Mail story about photographs taken of habitual drunkards in Edwardian times. The photos and accompanying detail served as a database by which police and pub landlords could watch out for these folks.

Apart from the fact that everyone is so short by modern standards, the faces and information allude to some very sad lives.

Meet James Doyle, a labourer, whose report listed ‘peculiarities’ such as having two scars on his right forearm and a ‘crossed right eye’. He was convicted of being drunk and disorderly in a public house in 1904.