mostly-history:The Old Clothes of St. Giles (1877), from Street Life in London by John Thomson and A
mostly-history:The Old Clothes of St. Giles (1877), from Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith: “The accompanying photograph represents a second-hand clothes shop in a narrow thoroughfare of St. Giles, appropriately called Lumber Court, where several similar tradesmen are grouped together, all dealing in old clothes and furniture of a most varied and dilapidated description. It is here that the poorest inhabitants of a district, renowned for its poverty, both buy and sell their clothes.” -- source link
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