London, Street Water Seller c.1890
Photo ref:
L1302002
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There were continual public fears about the purity of London’s water supply. In early Victorian times water taken from the Thames at Chelsea was infected with the contents of the city’s sewers and the drainings from its dunghills. There were terrible widespread cholera outbreaks in the 1840s and 50s.The water seller shown here would have had a regular pitch so that clients grew to trust the purity of his water.
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