I just found this on google images, surely its not the actual kid?

 

The boy was photographed about 1901/1902 and presumably he was about 5 roughly, maybe older. That would make him about 115 now

Posted By Nigel on 01 Sep 2012 01:59 PM
The boy was photographed about 1901/1902 and presumably he was about 5 roughly, maybe older. That would make him about 115 now

It is possible that this photo was taken some time in the 50's or 60's?
 

just found this:

Fry's Five Boys chocolate was once the most famous confectionery bar in the world - and it was due to Lindsay Poulton and a cloth soaked in ammonia.

Remember Fry's Five Boys chocolate with its famous image of one little boy running through all the emotions from being chocolate-less to getting ready to stuff his face ? It's no wonder that the poor little chap was in desperation in that first picture - just look what he had to go through.

Those five pictures were taken as far back as 1886 and feature one Lindsay Poulton, as photographed by his father, grandfather and uncle.

Mr. Poulton was still around in the 1960's when the Bristol Evening Post tracked him down to East Providence, Rhode Island, not far from one of the many Bristols in America.

He remembered the session well - but particularly Desperation; - I think they must have found it hard to make me cry he recalled. - In the end, my grandfather induced a sufficient degree of desperation by soaking a cloth in photographers - ammonia and placing it around my neck:

Lindsay was five when the pictures were taken and Fry's paid a staggering £ 200 - real wealth - to have exclusive use of them. At first the pictures were used as a show-card, and Lindsay's face became familiar on postcards, enamel advertising plates, and in newspapers.

In 1902, when milk chocolate was introduced, the Five Boys image became irretrievably connected with the famous bar The original images showed Lindsay in a sailor suit but in 1935, his outfit was rather clumsily updated into a striped jersey.

Fry's was surprised to find Lindsay still alive in 1962 - but not half so surprised as Lindsay was to discover his boyhood features were still decorating chocolate bars 76 years on.