http://www.dailymail.co.uk …ives-Londoners-1800s.html
These fascinating black and white pictures taken by photographer John Thompson show the reality of existence in the 1800s when photography was in its infancy.
In 1876 he set out with writer Adolphe Smith and together the pair spoke to people and the shots were later published in magazine, Street Life in London.
The pictures, now stored at the Bishopsgate Institute, capture the lives of street beggars, chimney sweeps, street doctors and market sellers among many others.
In 1876 he set out with writer Adolphe Smith and together the pair spoke to people and the shots were later published in magazine, Street Life in London.
The pictures, now stored at the Bishopsgate Institute, capture the lives of street beggars, chimney sweeps, street doctors and market sellers among many others.
Some focus issues 
but I'm amazed at the quality of what has been captured here. 140 years and these pictures still beat what one gets from the average smartphone camera.
I enjoyed this little snippet greatly;
Itinerant Photographer on Clapham Common: 'Many have been tradesmen or owned studios in town but after misfortunes in business or reckless dissipations are reduced to their present more humble avocation'
I'm sure some of our resident professionals must be thinking that some things never change. 
