EditorialFamily of costermongers or hawkers with baskets of brooms, brushes, and other goods, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827.
EditorialTHE STREET VENDORS' QUESTION, LIFE IN GOLDEN LANE: 1. THE EARL'S BARROW; 2. TRIMMINGS FOR SOUP KITCHENS; 3. COSTERMONGERS' DINNER; 4. CHINA YARD ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON; 5. HOME OF A COSTERMONGER.