- Photographic Saloon
Photographic Saloon, East end of London - 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 - Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- New Laid Eggs
- Troope every one
- Fine Large Cucumbers
- Sw-e-e-p
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- Fine Oysters
- Sweet Lavender
- Fine Writeing Ink
- Letters for post
- All a blowin
- Antique Ballads
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Stinking Fish
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Ow-oo
- "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- Curds and Whey
- Fresh Cabbidge
- Young lambs to sell
- I love a ballad in print
- Buy my sweet Roses
- Fresh and sweet
- Dust, O
- Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Songs, penny a sheet
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Chairs to mend
- Milk below, Maids
- Old Cloths
- O' clo
- Sand 'O
- Fresh Oysters, penny a lot
- Buy a Live Goose
- Large silver eels
- Pots and Kettles to mend
- Knives to Grind
- Cat's and Dog's Meat
- Great News
- Wat d'yer call that
- Fine Strawberries
- Ripe Cherries
- Buy a doll, Miss
- Ere's yer toys for girls an boys
- Cherries, O ripe cherries, O
- Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Hot Spice Gingerbread
- Buy the fair ballads I have in my pack
- Buy my fine Myrtles and Roses
- Street Acrobats performing
Street Acrobats performing - Punches Showmen
Punches Showmen - One of the few remaining climbing sweeps
One of the few remaining climbing sweeps - The Old-Clothes Man
The Old-Clothes Man Fifty years ago the appearance of the street-Jews, engaged in the purchase of second-hand clothes, was different to what it is at the present time. The Jew then had far more of the distinctive garb and aspect of a foreigner. He not unfrequently wore the gabardine, which is never seen now in the streets, but some of the long loose frock coats worn by the Jew clothes’ buyers resemble it. At that period, too, the Jew’s long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation. In other respects the street-Jew is unchanged. Now, as during the last century, he traverses every street, square, and road, with the monotonous cry, sometimes like a bleat, of “Clo’! Clo’!” - The London Scavenger
The London Scavenger These men, for by far the great majority are men, may be divided, according to the nature of their occupations, into three classes:— 1. The bone-grubbers and rag-gatherers, who are, indeed, the same individuals, the pure-finders, and the cigar-end and old wood collectors. 2. The dredgermen, the mud-larks, and the sewer-hunters. 3. The dustmen and nightmen, the sweeps and the scavengers. - London Nightmen
London Nightmen Nightmen, or those who remove the contents of the cesspools.