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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Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
London’s street markets by László Moholy-Nagy
The influential Hungarian artist turns his attention to 1930s street life
Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
The jobs that made London’s docks run
London’s port relied on dock workers doing an array of back-breaking and highly skilled jobs
Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
Inside the Cutler Street Warehouses
Once a centre of London’s trade and imperial ambitions
Trades & Workers

Trades & Workers
Portraits of City of London workers, 1974
John Eastcott looked beyond the bankers to document the many trades of the Square Mile
Food & Diet

Food & Diet
You scream, we scream: A London history of ice cream
Churning out the facts about the city’s favourite frozen treat