Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
Anna Maria Garthwaite: Spitalfields silk designer
Her naturalistic floral designs were the height of silk fashion in the mid-1700s
Art & Design
Art & Design
The Thames Set by James McNeill Whistler
As the polluted river crawled by, Whistler scratched out images of London’s watery margins
Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
Chimney sweeps’ soot-stained past
Brush up on the history of a trade that once sent children climbing into danger
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Photography
Photography
River Lee Navigation: Angel Road Bridge, on 9th May, 1931. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1931