[PhilosopherStone1000]

Lot's of great photos (and contemporary commentary) of 1870's London at the site.

[AnAmericanMother]

These are contemporary with Mayhew's great book, London Labor and the London Poor, and I'm almost certain they illustrated one edition, because I've seen all of these before.

A macabre sidelight to the picture of the Roma in their caravan - the woman on the left was murdered a few weeks later.

[traderrob6]

The guy in the pic looks like a young Teddy Kennedy.

[randita]

photography ping

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Seeing all those carts/wagons reminded me of something from my childhood. In 1950’s Lyons, Illinois there was a guy who pulled his cart around town sharpening knives, scissors, etc., on a foot operated grindstone.

[riri]

I am addicted to the Daily Mail. Love it.

Anyhow, the comments by the Brits are maddening. I find them to be one of the most vile people the world over.

[Harold Shea]

Rough living back...the horses looked malnourshed

The children working on the street...bet the smell

of the city would knock a person of today backwards

[GeronL]

Child labor was the big things back then.

Poverty was seen as the normal status of human beings. Anyone who wasn’t poor had worked at it.

[Revolting cat!]

Photos from the 1870s? How’s that possible? That was before cellphones had cameras in them!