GA, what a colorful array of London occupations in Petherick’s work with wonderful detail.

Of course, I had to look up “costermonger” defined as a “street seller of fruit and vegetables.” Sometimes referred to as “hawkers,” but “while costermongers sold from a handcart or animal-drawn cart, mere hawkers carried their wares in a basket.”

Wiki goes on to explain, “Costers met a need for rapid food distribution from the wholesale markets (e.g., Smithfield for meat, Spitalfields for fruit and vegetables or Billingsgate for fish) by providing retail sales at locations that were convenient for the labouring classes.”

True, we learn something every day…