Booth’s Poverty Map of London (1898-1899)

Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor

• Section OF THE NICKNAMES OF COSTERMONGERS.• Section OF THE EDUCATION OF COSTERMONGERS' CHILDREN.• Section THE LITERATURE OF COSTERMONGERS.• Section OF THE HONESTY OF COSTERMONGERS.• Section OF THE CONVEYANCES OF THE COSTER- MONGERS AND OTHER STREET-SELLERS.• Section OF THE "SMITHFIELD RACES."• Section OF THE DONKEYS OF THE COSTERMONGERS.• Section OF THE COSTERMONGERS' CAPITAL.• Section OF THE "SLANG" WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.• Section OF HALF PROFITS.• Section OF THE BOYS OF THE COSTERMONGERS, AND THEIR BUNTS.• Section OF THE JUVENILE TRADING OF THE COSTERMONGERS.• Section OF THE EDUCATION OF THE "COSTER- LADS."• Section THE LIFE OF A COSTER-LAD.• Section OF THE "PENNY GAFF."• Section OF THE COSTER-GIRLS.• Section THE LIFE OF A COSTER GIRL.

A “Watercress Girl”Market Quantity sold

wholesale.Proportionretailed inthe Streets.

Covent Garden 1,578,000 bunches one-eighth.

Farringdon 12,960,000 " one-half.

Borough 180,000 " one-half.

Spitalfields 180,000 " one-half.

Portman 60,000 " one-third.

Total 14,958,000 "

Bunches. Receipts

Farringdon 6,480,000 ½d. per bunch

\cp\13,500

Covent Garden 16,450 " 34

Borough 90,000 " 187

Spitalfields 90,000 " 187

Portman 20,000 " 41

\cp\13,949

I always give mother my money, she's so very good to me. She don't often beat me; but, when she do, she don't play with me. She's very poor, and goes out cleaning rooms sometimes, now she don't work at the fur. I ain't got no father, he's a father-in-law. No; mother ain't married again -- he's a father-in-law. He grinds scissors, and he's very good to me. No; I dont mean by that that he says kind things to me, for he never hardly speaks. When I gets home, after selling creases, I stops at home. I puts the room to rights: mother don't make me do it, I does it myself. I cleans the chairs, though there's only two to clean. I takes a tub and scrubbing-brush and flannel, and scrubs the floor -- that's what I do three or four times a week.

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