Cries Of London Snap Cards
It has been a while since I added to my collection of Cries of London down the ages, so I was delighted to acquire these beautiful cards for a mere couple of pounds. For me, their patina after more than century of use in games of Snap only enhances the appeal of these characterful portraits of industrious Londoners of the eighteen-nineties.
You may also like to take a look at these other sets of the Cries of London
Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders
William Craig Marshall’s Itinerant Traders
H.W.Petherick’s London Characters
John Thomson’s Street Life in London
Aunt Busy Bee’s New London Cries
Marcellus Laroon’s Cries of London
More John Player’s Cries of London
William Nicholson’s London Types
Francis Wheatley’s Cries of London
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana of 1817
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana II
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana III
Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders
I had some Hokey Pokey when I was a child, it was a white ice cream, frozen solid and made my teeth ache.
Gary
As a child living in Bethnal Green East London,we saw these people on a daily basis,the coke man,the coal man,the dog results, the news boy,the Italian ice cream sellers, the chimney sweep,who made it my job to go in the street,and look up to our Chimney Pots on the roof of the Pub,and shout out when I saw the brushes,popping out!!! The rag man,for all out old clothes,in exchange for a Gold Fish,no money,Milkman on Horses and carts, shell fish man, with a barrow, Good Times, poor people then,as of now we think,in the East End, when ever we here about it,or see GA pictures,thanks Paul
My grandmother had an identical set to these ….
Thank you for this interesting post. Lovely illustrations.