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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London is open & always has been
15 objects from our collections, each showing that London is, and has always been, open to the wider world
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Peggy Jones: Mudlarking for survival
This mudlark earned her living, and some infamy, scavenging coal along the filthy River Thames
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
The City of London’s last lollipop lady
And the history of London’s traffic stoppers
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Draw Docks: Loading a lorry with timber from a barge at the Kew Draw Dock on 4th April, 1931. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1931