Comments on: Charles Spurgeon’s Street Traders https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:47:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Philip Cave https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1324235 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:47:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1324235 Can you tell me please .In the 1960s there was a shellfish stall either oppisite or next to Tubby Issacs.My friend and i cant remember the name.Can you help please
Thankyou

]]> By: James M https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1298049 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:30:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1298049 I think I recognize the image of the Sweep as being one of those included in John Thomson’s Street Life. Am I mistaken?

]]> By: Marie Nicholson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1298012 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:07:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1298012 What was the difference in the Master Milkman and the third-class milkman. Was it the milk sold, or the containers used, or something else?
Loved the pictures, and love all your postings.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1298008 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:49:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1298008 Greetings from Boston,

GA, I would say that these are excellent photos commissioned by Charles Spurgeon in the mid-1800s. My favorite is the “knife grinder” – his silhouette, his stance, his equipment and cart against a wall of local advertisements make a striking picture.

I hope that the young “Crossing Sweeper (& News Boy)” with his tattered clothes lives to see better days.

Wonderful photos!

]]> By: Stephen William Barker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1297999 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:06:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1297999 As a collector of letterpress posters I was very much interested in the posters in the background. I especially liked the one for House to Let in the picture of the third class milkman.

]]> By: Nina Archer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1297997 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:52:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1297997 …. loved these photographs – thank you … (though would keep clear of the Try Your Weight Machine whilst wearing long dress, bustle, and big hat!) ….

]]> By: Janet M https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/12/charles-spurgeons-street-traders-x/#comment-1297955 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 03:19:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175634#comment-1297955 I had no idea that being a milkman was such a hierarchical profession. 😉

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