Christmas is coming and parents are ready to spend hundreds on the latest must-have items
Prepare gadgets for their children
But long before the iPad era, young people entertained themselves with the simplest toys.
These charming black and white photos have brought us back to 1900, please see-
Saw, host a fake tea party, fight with a lid and stick.
Taken by many photographers, these photos show carefree children playing with classic toys at home and on streets across London and the UK.
Researchers from the Mary Evans Photo Gallery recently found a hidden file containing the heart
Warm pictures.
They showed and built toys made of love --
And you can't see a smartphone.
A picture was taken on a street in Balham, southwest London, where a boy was playing with homemade bows and arrows, while two of his friends used the lid as a shield and a stick
Other delightful snapshots show two girls riding hobby horses, a boy happy with a very simple set of trains, and a little girl happily pushing her in her stroller in 1905
Meanwhile, a photo taken on September 1915 shows a young girl hosting a teddy bear picnic at a staging show on 1930s, which is boy-to-girl --saw.
These fascinating images are in stark contrast to today's kids who will receive high-tech laser games, mobile phones and expensive hats this Christmas.