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Streets of London 1870 - 1900
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Victorian Clothes' Exchange in London

In order to avoid the workhouse people would often pawn – sell on but with a chance of buying them back – or sell their possessions. Women’s clothes could more easily be sold on as they were easier to alter. These old clothes’ exchanges often stank, though Smith describes this one on Lumber Court as being fairly clean.

 

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