In 2004, the title "Toffs and Toughs" was used in the Getty Images online catalogue and for a jigsaw puzzle of the photograph. Paul Barker of the Institute for Community Studies described the picture in 2000 as an "easy caricature" symbolising an obsolete social divide. It was the illustration on the covers of books about the British class system published in the 1990s, and in newspaper articles in the 2000s. In 1979, it was a plate in François Bédarida's Social history of England, captioned "The Two Nations". Bert Hardy, who joined the Picture Post in 1941, has often been misidentified as the photographer who took the picture, which has been reused often in subsequent decades.
Lindsay arguing for reform of Britain's education system. The News Chronicle photograph reappeared in 1941 in Picture Post, illustrating an article by A. Ian Jack speculates that Life used an inferior shot because the original had been sold by the Central Press Agency exclusively to the News Chronicle. A different photograph from the same reel was printed in a photo-essay in Life on 2 August 1937 Life erroneously described Wagner and Dyson as "Young Etonians", and described the other three as "village boys". The picture first appeared the next day, 10 July 1937, on the front page of the News Chronicle, a left-wing newspaper, under the heading "Every picture tells a story". Ian Jack speculates that Sime solicited the cooperation of the three "toughs", but not that of the two " toffs". The photographer, Jimmy Sime, worked for the Central Press Agency Sime took several shots of the five boys outside Grace Gates. They had visited the dentist that morning and decided to skip school to earn money at Lord's by carrying luggage and returning hired cushions for the deposit.
The other three boys were George Salmon, Jack Catlin, and George Young, 13-year-old pupils at the local Church of England school. The Harrovians were Peter Wagner and Thomas Norwood Armitage "Tim" Dyson, who had arranged to be at Grace Gates at 2 pm, where Wagner's father would pick them up and drive them to Russ Hill, the Wagners’ country home in Surrey, for the weekend. It has been reproduced frequently as an illustration of the British class system, although the name "Toffs and Toughs" may be no older than 2004.
The picture was taken by Jimmy Sime on 9 July 1937 outside the Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground during the Eton v Harrow cricket match. Toffs and Toughs is a 1937 photograph of five English boys: two dressed in the Harrow School uniform including waistcoat, top hat, boutonnière, and cane and three nearby wearing the plain clothes of pre-war working class youths.
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