'Mother's Day Off' was a photostory about a group of women from Bermondsey in South London enjoying a day-trip to the coast. It was one of a series of articles in which 'Picture Post' looked at the ways in which working-class people spent their free time during the summer months. On a rare day off the women are enjoying a drink at a local bar before departing for Margate. This has clearly sparked off the curiosity of the children playing outside.
Grace Robertson (English, born 1930)
Grace Robertson is one of the most significant women photojournalists. At the beginning of her career in the 1950s, she used the pseudonym Dick Muir. The daughter of a Scots-born 'Picture Post' writer, she worked for the magazine before its collapse in 1957. 'Picture Post' was one of only a handful of publications employing freelance women photographers on a regular basis. However, as Robertson later recalled, she was sometimes sent to cover topics purely because she was a woman. More recently she has written and lectured on the role of women in photography. In 1999 she was awarded an OBE.