London, Covent Garden Flower Sellers 1877
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Flower girls were often orphans, boarding in rooms crowded with other street-sellers. Mayhew reports that they sold violets, wall-flowers, stocks, pinks and roses - anything, in fact, that could be forced and wsa sweet-smelling. 'Gentlemen are our best customers. Ladies have sometimes said: "A penny, my poor girls, here's three-halfpence for the bunch". Or they have given me the price of two bunches for one'.
An extract from London Photographic Memories.
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