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Picture No 10034591
Date 1853
Description Goose Club at Christmas 1853
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'Goose Clubs in London', sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve. Some of the 'Goose Clubs', which abound in the poorest and most densely populated districts of London required a slight extra payment, while there was perhaps more than two bottles to the pack into the basket and garnish the esculents in the end.
Source Drawn by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) in Illustration in 'The Illustrated London News', 24 December 1853, page 580
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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