Georgian London
Adresses and Locations

Vendors, and others who work in the street

Selling from barrows

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Name	Trade	Cry
Tea		Fresh hot...
Pies		Fresh hot...followed by lists of type ie. beef, steak and kidney, pork, eel, fruit, & pudding; penny pies hot, hot, hot
Hot Spiced Ginger	warm beverage
Muffins		Rang bell
Dutch Biscuit seller	Gingerbread	Hot spiced gingerbread, Buy my dutch biscuits. Rang bell
Roast Chestnuts
Chair Bodger	Traveling chair repairman

Selling from stalls or specialized carts

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Name	Trade	Cry
Sallop	Infusion of sasafrass, milk & sugar, for "climbing boys"
Early Breakfast stall	warm meal, & tea
Fishwife	oysters	penny a lot
	knife and scissor sharpener	Knives or scissors to grind today?

Selling from Baskets, etc.

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Name	Trade	Cry
Orange girl, Fruitestere or Costor wife	fruit vendor	sweet china oranges, scarlet strawberries, fine ripe oranges, sweet as sugar.
Battledore maker	rug beaters
Candle seller	candles
Bird catchers
	selling diaries at coach stops
Trugger	shallow baskets
basket man	large baskets
Broom dasher or Bessomer		New brooms for old shoes,
Flower seller	posy	price ie. ha'penny a bunch
	papers of pins and needles
Rabbits	Gutted rabbits with their feet lashed together were draped on long poles which were carried by costers	Here I am with my rabbits hanging on the my pole, Who will buy me rabbits?
Fishwife or Fish Monger	eels	Fine silver eels! Buy great eels, 5 shillings a baskets
Ballad sellers	sheet music	Buy a ballad
Hot cross buns		One a penny two for a tuppence
Toys	Esp. jumping jacks and lamb dolls with real wool pasted on cardboard or paper with pink ribbons Would trade toys for glass bottles	'ers yer toys for girls and boys
Milkmaids	usually Welsh or Irish girls imported for the purpose	Milk maids bellow
	pen and ink sellers, only found in Mayfair or on Queen Anne	Ink as black as jet; fine writing ink; pens, pens fine pens
	old clothing sold from sack, also purchased, wore several hats stacked on his head	Old clo'
marking stones	Red and black stones used much like chalk or crayons Rooming houses used them to write stop thief on their linens.	Buy any marking stones.
eggs		10 for a 4d, new laid eggs 10 for a groat, crack em, and try 'em
coal	sold from sack	sold early morning, small coals
	boxes of wood or cardboard, sold from long pole.

Selling from Paniers, carts, etc.

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Name	Trade	Cry
Potato Badger or Costormonger	Vegetable	fresh picked..., (list of wares) separated by 'o' and followed by a loud ho!
charcoal
Baven Maker	kindling
Cane sellers	switches	Buy a cane for naughty boys

Services for sale

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Name	Trade	Cry
Ratener	rat catcher, carried sign with pictures of pests, believed to be the first of costers	ha' ye any rats or mice t'kill
link boys	lantern light
Caffler or Rag and bone man or chiffonier	buy rags and bones and resell them to make paper or buttons
Dustman	collected refuse in cart pulled be horse or donkey look out lest he inadvertantly toss it upon you on leave it in your path on the street.	Dust'o, dust'o bring it out today
Chairmen	sedan chair transport
Bellman	collects post	Bring out your mail
Letter carrier or postman	makes deliveries
Chimney sweeps		Swee..p! often in a low base note. Sweeps are the London equivalent of grassville's roosters
Advertising conveyancer	sandwich-board man
Caddie	message boy
Hackney Coachmen	taxi service

Others

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Name	Trade
Footpads
Pickpockets
Highwaymen
Runners or robin redbreasts	peace keeper
Charlie	night watchman, Named for King Charles who instituted the practice.
Raker or scale-raker	street sweeper
Door keeper	porter or guard
Lamp Lighter