2-879-497 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

A young child bringing milk bottles in from the doorstep of a house during the Covid-19 lockdown. The Picturing Lockdown Collection was created during April and May 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During seven days the public were asked to submit photographs that they felt best represented their experiences of lockdown in England, and from these submissions one hundred representing all the different geographic regions were chosen to be archived with Historic England. Alongside these images, ten artists were commissioned to produce their own images over the course of five days, representing their lockdown experience. These were supplemented with images by Historic England’s own photographers. Together, the Picturing Lockdown collection forms a permanent visual record of this unusual time in history. This photograph is one of fifty taken by Historic England's staff photographers. It was taken at 09.26 on 1st May 2020. The photographer wrote the following description of this image: "We had been getting milk delivered for some months before the lockdown. This was a welcomed site on the doorstep in the mornings and one less item to get during the fraught shopping trips during lockdown."