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Thames Lightermen

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Title: London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Tuckniss, William
Subjects: Working class Crime Prostitution Poor Charities
Publisher: London : Griffin, Bohn, and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the watemicnstand looking out for customers, or they siton an adjacent form, protected from the wea-ther, some smoking and some dozing. Theyare weather-beaten, strong-looking men, andmost of them are of, or above, the middleage. Those who are not privileged work inthe same way as the privileged, wear allkinds of dresses, but generally something inthe nature of a sailors garb, such as astrong pilot-jacket and thin canvas trousers.The iiresent race of watermen have, I amassured, lost the sauciness (^rith occasionalsmartness) that distinguished their prede-cessors. They are mostly patient, ploddingmen, enduring poverty heroically, and shrink-ing far more than many other classes fromany application for parish relief. There isnot a more independent lot that way inLondon, said a waterman to me, and Godknows it isnt for want of all the claims whichbeing poor can give us, that we doiit apply tothe workhouse. Some, however, are obligedto spend their old age, when incapable of 3/4 p ,^ I li!Ill
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w I I—f e ^ I CO ^ LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON FOOE. 331 labour, in the miiou. Half or more tlian one- Ihalf of the Thames watermen, I am crediblyinformed, can read and write. They used todi-ink quantities of beer, but now, from thestress of altei-ed cucumstances, they are gene-rally temperate men. The watermen arenearly aU maiiied, and have families. Someof their wives work for the slop-tailors. Theyall reside in the small streets near the river,usually in single rooms, rented at from Is. C<Z.to 2s. a-week. At least three-fourths of thewateiTueu have apprentices, and they nearlyall are sons or relatives of the watennen. Forthis I heard two reasons assigned. One was,that lads whose childhood was passed amongboats and on the water contracted a taste fora watei-mans life, and were unwilling to beapprenticed to any other calling. The otherreason was, that the poverty of the watermencompelled them to bring up their sons in thismanner, as the readiest mode of giving thema trade ; and

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  • bookid:londonlabourlond03mayh
  • bookyear:1861
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Mayhew__Henry__1812_1887
  • bookauthor:Tuckniss__William
  • booksubject:Working_class
  • booksubject:Crime
  • booksubject:Prostitution
  • booksubject:Poor
  • booksubject:Charities
  • bookpublisher:London___Griffin__Bohn__and_Company
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Internet_Archive
  • bookleafnumber:380
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