Children from England.

[grandarog]

Wonder if any one recognises their ancestors on this photo. 1948 leaving England.

[brigidmac]

What a wonderful photo do you have the name and date of the ship

Maybe there is a list somewhere

[CaroleW]

The boys seem to be all dressed the same - were they from an institution (orphanage) perhaps?

[Wiggy]

In the 1980s someone started uncovering stories of children sent to Australia from UK . . from orphanages etc.   

This is not the same . . .but similar.  I presume you know that story.

The film 'Oranges and Sunshine' comes to mind.

[Cats1723]

It was a complete scandal, the child migration schemes, the children were nearly all not orphans, when reaching Australia, they were often used as child slave labor on farms etc, many of them were subjected  to  physical, mental and sexual abuse. 
Maragret Humpries was the first to expose what had happened to many of these children, she was subject to death threats and shots were fired at the house where she was staying.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Humphreys
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children
see https://www.childmigrantstrust.org/

eventually both the Australian and British government apologized for the treatment of these children.


This photo makes me sad to know what faced these children, once  they got to Australia

[Wiggy]

OP says 1948 and the clothes these children are wearing look more like that era than 1980s. 
It is some time since I've seen the film and I can't remember if it spoke about children of that decade or children from the decade pictured in OP's post.
I do remember that film depicted children NOT mainly from orphanages.  Very sad episode.

I might have taken the thread right off track.  If so, I'm really sorry.

[Cats1723]

book 'Empty Cradles' by Maragret Humphreys
movie based on the book
Oranges and Sunshine

 
The child migration scheme to Australia run from shortly after WW2 to the early 1970's

The migration scheme also  saw more than 100,000 children sent from Britain to Canada between 1869 and the 1930s.

[Nova67]

David Hill: The Forgotten Children

https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/pubresource/the-forgotten-children-fairbridge-farm-school-and-its-betrayal-of-australias-child-migrants/

[Nova67]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leaving_of_Liverpool_(TV_series)