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- "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- 'Old Sarah'
The well-known Hurdy-Gurdy player One of the most deserving and peculiar of the street musicians was an old lady who played upon a hurdy-gurdy. She had been about the streets of London for upwards of forty years, and being blind, had had during that period four guides, and worn out three instruments. Her cheerfulness, considering her privation and precarious mode of life, was extraordinary. Her love of truth, and the extreme simplicity of her nature, were almost childlike. Like the generality of blind people, she had a deep sense of religion, and her charity for a woman in her station of life was something marvellous; for, though living on alms, she herself had, I was told, two or three little pensioners. - All a blowin
- Antique Ballads
- Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Buy a doll, Miss
- Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Buy a Live Goose
- Buy my fine Myrtles and Roses
- Buy my sweet Roses
- Buy the fair ballads I have in my pack
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Cat's and Dog's Meat
- Chairs to mend
- Cherries, O ripe cherries, O
- Costume of Shepherds in the Twelfth Century
- Curds and Whey
- Dust, O
- Ere's yer toys for girls an boys
- Ethiopan Serenaders
Ethiopan Serenaders The Street Vocalists are almost as large a body as the street musicians. It will be seen that there are 50 Ethiopian serenaders, and above 250 who live by ballad-singing alone. - Fine Large Cucumbers
- Fine Oysters
- Fine Strawberries
- Fine Writeing Ink
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- Flushing the Sewers
Flushing the Sewers The next step in our inquiry—and that which at present concerns us more than any other—is the mode of removing the solid deposits from the sewers, as well as the condition of the workmen connected with that particular branch of labour. The sewers are the means by which a larger proportion of the wet refuse of the metropolis is removed from our houses, and we have now to consider the means by which the more solid part of this refuse is removed from the sewers themselves. The latter operation is quite as essential to health and cleanliness as the former; for to allow the filth to collect in the channels which are intended to remove it, and there to remain decomposing and vitiating the atmosphere of the metropolis, is manifestly as bad as not to remove it at all; and since the more solid portions of the sewage will collect and form hard deposits at the bottom of each duct, it becomes necessary that some means should be devised for the periodical purgation of the sewers themselves. - Fresh and sweet
- Fresh Cabbidge
- Fresh Oysters, penny a lot
- Great News
- Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes The character of Guy Fawkes-day has entirely changed. It seems now to partake rather of the nature of a London May-day. The figures have grown to be of gigantic stature, and whilst clowns, musicians, and dancers have got to accompany them in their travels through the streets, the traitor Fawkes seems to have been almost laid aside, and the festive occasion taken advantage of for the expression of any political feeling, the guy being made to represent any celebrity of the day who has for the moment offended against the opinions of the people. The kitchen-chair has been changed to the costermongers’ donkey-truck, or even vans drawn by pairs of horses. The bonfires and fireworks are seldom indulged in; the money given to the exhibitors being shared among the projectors at night, the same as if the day’s work had been occupied with acrobating - Hot Spice Gingerbread
- I love a ballad in print
- Jack Black - Her Majesty's Rat Catcher
Jack Black - Her Majesty's Rat Catcher In the sporting world, and among his regular customers, the Queen’s ratcatcher is better known by the name of Jack Black. He enjoys the reputation of being the most fearless handler of rats of any man living, playing with them—as one man expressed it to me—“as if they were so many blind kittens.” - Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Knives to Grind
- Large silver eels
- Letters for post
- London Nightmen
London Nightmen Nightmen, or those who remove the contents of the cesspools. - Milk below, Maids
- New Laid Eggs
- O' clo
- Old Cloths
- One of the few remaining climbing sweeps
One of the few remaining climbing sweeps - Ow-oo
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Photographic Saloon
Photographic Saloon, East end of London - Pots and Kettles to mend
- Punches Showmen
Punches Showmen - Ripe Cherries
- Sand 'O
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Small Wigs and Big Fees
The greatest variety of expressions are to be seen in the audiences that come together at the law courts. There is the never-changing face of the judge, and the ever-changing face of the witness rocking from side to side in his box, and there are the black-robed barristers with small wigs and big fees, and pale law students crowding in at the doors and filling the passage-ways; and in front of the long table that is covered with papers and high hats sit those most interested in what is going on—care-worn parents and women thickly veiled. - Songs, penny a sheet
- Stinking Fish
- Street Acrobats performing
Street Acrobats performing - Street Conjurer Performing
Street Conjurer Performing - Street Performers on Stilts
Street Performers on Stilts - Street Telescope Exhibitor
Street Telescope Exhibitor “It must be about eight years since I first exhibited the telescope. I have three telescopes now, and their powers vary from about 36 to 300. The instruments of the higher power are seldom used in the streets, because the velocity of the planets is so great that they almost escape the eye before it can fix it. The opening is so very small, that though I can pass my eye on a star in a minute, an ordinary observer would have the orb pass away before he could accustom his eye to the instrument. High power is all very well for separating stars, and so forth; but I’m like Dr. Kitchener, I prefer a low power for street purposes. A street-passer likes to see plenty of margin round a star. If it fills up the opening he don’t like it.