Working History
This collection reflects the historic trade and industry of the city through tools and workshop treasures, from clocks to wheelwrights to ballet shoe-making.
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British-Bangladeshis & the East End rag trade: A personal story
How Asma Begum’s parents travelled from Bangladesh in the 1960s to build a life in London’s East End
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
The calls of London’s historic street traders
In a busy city, your voice can make a sale
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What connects Elias Lindo & the Hanukkah lamp?
A 17th-century Jewish broker in London brings together objects from the collections of two museums in the most fascinating way
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Working History
Working History
Fire alarm paper winder
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraphs, Beasley, George Longfield
1900-1910
