Dustmen with horse cart, London
Flying Dustmen'. So called from their habit of flying from one district to another. In Lambeth, the dustmen came twice a week and took their load to the parish shoot. Some was mixed and treated to help make either manure or mortar, the rest sent down to the Thames estuary. The man in the centre was a civil and obliging dustman
Picture No
11939064
Media ID
46076847
Size
3061px x 2312px
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Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From Street Life in London' by J Thomson, published by Sampson Low, 1877'8. Photograph: John Meek
Date
1877 - 1878
