Comments on: William Marshall Craig’s Itinerant Traders

By: andi hajar

andi hajar — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:47:12 +0000

fascinating! I enjoy the drawings. I like the classic works though it was long time ago. thanks much to the author. cos of him I can get the clear picture and imagination about life in the past.

By: linda

linda — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:50:12 +0000

What a wonderful find, the colours are wonderful and the subject matter is so fascinating. I would love to be able to go and buy some of those things today!

By: good-tree

good-tree — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:08:42 +0000

Just wonderful. The colours in these plates are magnificent.
Life was indeed hard in those days, but it was also a simple, uncomplicated existence. There’s a lot to be said for simplicity…

By: Ruby Kay

Ruby Kay — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:13:44 +0000

My grandfather hawked shrimps & winkles on a cart around the East End streets on Sunday mornings. As a child, I also remember coal men with lorries delivering to households and shouting their arrival from the street…”Coal O, C-o -a- a-l all !”
Steptoe & Son were the celebrated fictional rage n’bone men of Shepherds Bush, of course, and provided many a chuckle with their antics. Art imitating life!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:24:50 +0000

The cries of London – some of them at any rate – seem to have gone on until quite recently. When I lived near Vauxhall in the 1950’s, a man with a pony and cart often came down our street calling for ‘Rag-boooooh’ ( rags and bones). He mainly seemed to have things like broken rusted and worn out metal goods, but I never actually saw any customers with things they were trying to get rid of.