The big picture: Easter Sunday, 1958

The late Observer photographer Jane Bown turns her natural eye for studies of children to a moment of seasonal longingJane Bown took this picture for the Observer’s Easter Sunday paper exactly 60 years ago. It shared the front page with a couple of stories. One reported on the unseasonable holiday weather, the 1958 equivalent of the “beast from the east”, with a forecast that included “snow, sleet, rain, ice, flooding and fog”.The other dwelt on the previous day&rsq