Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Trades & Workers
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
Transport
Transport
St Barbara: Guardian of the Crossrail tunnel
The medieval saint who watched over the Elizabeth Line
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Street life & work in 1877
John Thomson’s fascinating photographs reveal the lives of workers in 19th-century London
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Photography
Photography
Colliers: The Wandsworth Gas Company collier 'Ewell' raising her funnel after clearing Tower bridge on 13th June, 1934 (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1934
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
'Any Tripe or Neats feet or calves feet...' (etching)
Sandby, Paul
1760