London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1

LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. — THE STREET-FOLK.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FISH.

OF THE KIND AND QUANTITIES OF FISH SOLD BY THE LONDON COSTERMONGERS.

OF THE COSTERMONGERS' FISH SEASON.

BILLINGSGATE.

OF THE FORESTALLING OF MARKETS AND THE BILLINGSGATE BUMMAREES.

OF "WET" FISH-SELLERS IN THE STREETS.

OF SPRAT-SELLING IN THE STREETS.

OF SHELL-FISH SELLERS IN THE STREETS.

OF SHRIMP SELLING IN THE STREETS.

OF OYSTER SELLING IN THE STREETS.

OF PERIWINKLE SELLING IN THE STREETS.

OF "DRY" FISH SELLING IN THE STREETS.

GROSS VALUE OF THE SEVERAL KINDS OF FISH ANNUALLY SOLD IN THE STREETS OF LONDONS.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

OF THE STATIONARY STREET-SELLERS OF FISH, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES.

OF THE STREET-IRISH.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF GAME, POULTRY (LIVE AND DEAD), RABBITS, BUTTER, CHEESE, AND EGGS.

OF THE SELLERS OF TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS (CUT AND IN POTS), ROOTS, SEEDS, AND BRANCHES.

STREET-SELLERS OF GREEN STUFF.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.

10.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF EATABLES AND DRINKABLES.

11.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.

12.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF STATIONERY, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.

13.

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

14.

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS.

15.

OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.

ERRATA.

INDEX.

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OF THE MORE PROVIDENT COSTERMONGERS.

Concerning this head, I give the statement of
a man whose information I found fully con-

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firmed: — "We are not such a degraded set as
some believe; sir, but a living doesn't tumble
into a man's mouth, now a days. A good
many of us costers rises into greengrocers and
coal-sheds, and still carries on their rounds as
costers, all the same. Why, in Lock's-fields,
I could show you twenty such, and you'd find
them very decent men, sir — very. There's one
man I know, that's risen that way, who is worth
hundreds of pounds, and keeps his horse and
cart like a gentleman. They rises to be voters,
and they all vote liberal. Some marry the better
kind of servants, — such servant-maids as
would'nt marry a rag and bottle shop, but
doesn't object to a coal shed. It's mostly
younger men that manages this. As far as I
have observed, these costers, after they has
settled and got to be housekeepers, don't turn
their backs on their old mates. They'd have a
nice life of it if they did — yes! a very nice life."

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OF THE MORE PROVIDENT COSTERMONGERS.