...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts ; and the shelves within are piled...setting-in of dusk by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back-parlours, and go as strangely as they came. Here the clothesman, the shoevamper, and the rag-merchant...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts; and the shelves within are piled...friedfish warehouse. It is a commercial colony of iiself, the emporium of petty larceny, visited at early morning and setting-in of dusk by silent merchants,...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts ; and the shelves within are piled...setting-in of dusk by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back-parlours, and go as strangely as they come. Here the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant,...

...dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts ; and the shelves, within, ar& piled with them. Confined as the limits of Field Lane...of dusk, by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back-parlours ; and who go as strangely as they come. Here, the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the window?, or flaunting from the door-posts; and the shelves within are piled...them. Confined as the limits of Field Lane are, it lias its barber, its coffee-shop, its beera»p, and its fried-fish warehouse. It is a commercial colony...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hung dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts; and the shelves within are piled...them, Confined as the limits of Field lane are, it lias its barber, its cotfee-shop, its beer-shop, and its fried-fish warehouse. It is a commercial colony...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from, pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts: and the shelves within are piled with them, Confined as the limits of Field lane arc, U has its barber, its coffee-shop, its beer-shop, and its fried-fish warehouse. It is a commercial...

...the limits of Field-lane are, it has its barber, its coffee-shop, its beershop, and its fried fish warehouse. It is a commercial colony of itself —...emporium of petty larceny, visited at early morning and setting in of dusk by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back parlours, and go as strangely as they...

...pickpockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from pegs outside the windows, or flaunting from the door-posts ; and the shelves within are piled with them. Confined as the limits of Fieldlane are, it has its barber, its coffee-shop, its beer-shop, and its fried-fish warehouse. It...

...Prison, are now nearly forgotten. Dickens, writing about Field Lane in 1837, thus describes it : — ' It is a commercial colony of itself — the emporium...of dusk, by silent merchants, who traffic in dark back parlours, and go as strangely as they come.' " Skinner Street and Snow Hill would hardly now be...