Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
Blogs-And-Stories
London’s street markets by László Moholy-Nagy
The influential Hungarian artist turns his attention to 1930s street life
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
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
Inside the Cutler Street Warehouses
Once a centre of London’s trade and imperial ambitions
Portraits of City of London workers, 1974
John Eastcott looked beyond the bankers to document the many trades of the Square Mile
Office life in the 1980s
Anna Fox’s photographs pick out the mundane and the sinister in the aspirational 1980s workplace
You scream, we scream: A London history of ice cream
Churning out the facts about the city’s favourite frozen treat
Colourful prints of lost East End shops
Look again at the greengrocers, delis and butchers that have disappeared from our streets
Photographing London at rush hour, 1978
Barry Lewis captured the crowds commuting in the capital
Chimney sweeps’ soot-stained past
Brush up on the history of a trade that once sent children climbing into danger
