They sold middle class Victorians everything from toys, shrimp and even the old clothes of smallpox victims.
And these remarkable photographs reveal the daily lives of adult and child street sellers including the Old Clo' Man and Kentish Herb Woman in Greenwich, South East London, between 1884 and 1887.
Old Clo' Man sold second-hand top hats and clothes of smallpox victims at heavily discounted prices, but his was a risky trade thanks to it being a crime to not dispose of infected clothing of sufferers.
Kentish Herb Woman sold fresh herbs on Greenwich High Road, while a man is pictured selling toys from his wagon. There also appears to a mother and son duo flogging sherbets and a seller of ginger cakes and shrimp.
The pictures were taken by a photographer commissioned by Charles Spurgeon the Younger, a priest at South St Baptist Chapel who wanted to make lantern-slides of working people that he could use in his preaching.
During the late 1800s, there was an estimated 30,000 street sellers - known as costermongers or 'costers' - in London, each selling wares usually from a barrow or donkey-cart. Others sold their products in stationary stalls.
A costermonger's most profitable times were Saturday and early Sunday morning, as newly paid shoppers wanted to buy Sunday dinner. The busiest days were Wednesday and Fridays, when fresh fish was available.
In his book 'London Labour and the London Poor', journalist Henry Mayhew recorded how sellers peddled items such as sheep's trotters, baked potatoes, cough drops, second-hand musical instruments and even birds' nests.
Kentish Herb Woman is pictured selling herbs on Greenwich High Road in South East London in the 1880s, in one of many remarkable photographs dating back to Victorian times which reveal the daily lives of adult and child street sellers
Old Clo' Man (left) sold second-hand top hats and clothes of smallpox victims at heavily discounted prices, but his was a risky trade thanks to it being a crime to not dispose of infected clothing of sufferers. Another man (right) worked a chair mender
A toy seller on King William Street outside the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, in one of the many fascinating photographs commissioned by a priest who wanted to make lantern-slides of working people that he could use in his preaching
A crossing sweeper on Clarence Street (left) and a chimney sweep (right), both pictured in Greenwich in the 1880s
Shrimp sellers outside Greenwich Park in the 1880s, one of the photos revealing the daily lives of adult and child street sellers
Pie maker W Thompson outside his shop in an alley behind Greenwich Church (left), and a boy delivers The Daily News (right)
A sherbert seller is photographed at Greenwich Park for a picture commissioned by priest Charles Spurgeon the Younger
A man sells ginger cakes on King Street near Greenwich Park. In the late 1800s, there was an estimated 30,000 street sellers
A muffin man walks along the road (left), while a knife grinder cuts out a kettle bottom from a tin sheet in Greenwich (right)
A hokey-pokey boy sells ice cream on Stockwell Street in Greenwich, with various tourism posters seen behind the stand
A master milkman in his uniform outside Royal Naval College. Each person sold wares usually from a barrow or cart
Young boys watch a blind fiddler playing outside Crowders' Music Hall - which is the present-day Greenwich Theatre
A third class milkman carrying four-gallon cans on a yoke (left) and a glazier (right) go about their business in Greenwich
Fishmongers in Greenwich. The busiest days of the week were Wednesday and Fridays, when fresh fish was available
A boy stands close to a rabbit seller in Greenwich. The thousands of street sellers were known as costermongers or 'costers'
A child finds out their weight on a huge scales set outside Greenwich Park in South East London in the 1880s
A second class milkman with a hand cart and 17-gallon churn, in one of the many photos taken in the 1880s in Greenwich
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