Shriek of the Milkman
John Gallagher: London Hawking, 2 November 2023
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London
by Charlie Taverner.
Oxford, 256 pp., £30, January 2023,978 0 19 284694 5 Show More
by Charlie Taverner.
Oxford, 256 pp., £30, January 2023,
“... lug through the streets and to the city’s outlying neighbourhoods. In the mid-19th century, Henry Mayhew estimated that five thousand hawkers descended on Covent Garden on a busy Saturday, ready to carry away the produce in barrows and baskets for distribution across the city. Hawkers bought cheap, with some waiting until the end of selling hours to ... ”