Garbage collection was potentially deadly work for a dustman in Victorian London! Not only was it dirty, but dangerous to health. Men, women and children laboured long hours collecting and sorting dust and rubbish, which was hard physical work - there was certainly no mechanical assistance in the 19th Century, like modern refuse collectors have today. Discover London's monumental dust heaps and find out what life was like for the capital's dustmen doing perhaps one of the worst jobs in Victorian history.
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CC BY - Poor people coming to a workhouse for food, c. 1840; View of a Dust yard; A street during the Great Plague in London, 1665; Cartoon by Grandville Cholera; Street Orderlies from London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew by Wellcome Collection
CC BY-SA - Illustration of a dustman from Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English(1814) by William Alexander (1767-1816) by Rawpixel
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