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- Long Song Seller
Long Song Seller “Long songs” first appeared between nine and ten years ago. The long-song sellers did not depend upon patter—though some of them pattered a little—to attract customers, but on the veritable cheapness and novel form in which they vended popular songs, printed on paper rather wider than this page, “three songs abreast,” and the paper was about a yard long, which constituted the “three” yards of song. Sometimes three slips were pasted together. The vendors paraded the streets with their “three yards of new and popular songs” for a penny. - Dr Bokanky
Dr Bokanky The Street Herbalist “Now then for the Kalibonca Root, that was brought from Madras in the East Indies. It’ll cure the toothache, head-ache, giddiness in the head, dimness of sight, rheumatics in the head, and is highly recommended for the ague; never known to fail; and I’ve sold it for this six and twenty year. From one penny to sixpence the packet. The best article in England.” - A view of Petticoat Lane
A view of Petticoat Lane Immediately connected with the trade of the central mart for old clothes are the adjoining streets of Petticoat-lane, and those of the not very distant Rosemary-lane. In these localities is a second-hand garment-seller at almost every step, but the whole stock of these traders, decent, frowsy, half-rotten, or smart and good habiliments, has first passed through the channel of the Exchange. The men who sell these goods have all bought them at the Exchange—the exceptions being insignificant—so that this street-sale is but an extension of the trade of the central mart, with the addition that the wares have been made ready for use. - Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- Troope every one
- Fine Large Cucumbers
- Sw-e-e-p
- New Laid Eggs
- Fine Oysters
- Sweet Lavender
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- Stinking Fish
- Letters for post
- Fine Writeing Ink
- Antique Ballads
- All a blowin
- Curds and Whey
- Ow-oo
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- I love a ballad in print
- Fresh Cabbidge
- Costers and Cockneys
“Ere y’are, Lidies’ Tormentors. ‘Two’ n penny!” - "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Fresh and sweet
- Large silver eels
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Buy my sweet Roses
- Dust, O
- Chairs to mend
- Young lambs to sell
- Songs, penny a sheet
- O' clo
- Great News
- Milk below, Maids
- Sand 'O
- Buy a Live Goose
- Wat d'yer call that
- Fresh Oysters, penny a lot
- Old Cloths
- Knives to Grind
- Ripe Cherries
- Pots and Kettles to mend
- Ere's yer toys for girls an boys
- Buy a doll, Miss
- Cat's and Dog's Meat
- Fine Strawberries
- Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Cherries, O ripe cherries, O
- Hot Spice Gingerbread
- Buy the fair ballads I have in my pack
- Buy my fine Myrtles and Roses
- Soho Market
Soho Market - Flower Girl
Flower Girl - The Wallflower Girl
The Wallflower Girl For the flowers of commoner or easier culture, the root-seller receives from 1d. to 3d. These are primroses, polyanthuses, cowslips (but in small quantities comparatively), daisies (single and double,—and single or wild, daisies were coming to be more asked for, each 1d.), small early wallflowers, candy-tufts, southernwood (called “lad’s love” or “old man” by some), and daffodils, (but daffodils were sometimes dearer than 3d.). - The Coster-girl
The Coster-girl The life of the coster-girls is as severe as that of the boys. Between four and five in the morning they have to leave home for the markets, and sell in the streets until about nine. Those that have more kindly parents, return then to breakfast, but many are obliged to earn the morning’s meal for themselves. After breakfast, they generally remain in the streets until about ten o’clock at night; many having nothing during all that time but one meal of bread and butter and coffee, to enable them to support the fatigue of walking from street to street with the heavy basket on their heads. In the course of a day, some girls eat as much as a pound of bread, and very seldom get any meat, unless it be on a Sunday.