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Ship in dry dock

The Lord and Lady of May can be seen on the left hand side (the 'Lady' may in fact be a man) and also a rough hurdy-gurdy player and other disreputable characters in the throng

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This section included some of London's top men's tailoring shops: Dunn's

A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market 1811 IN9164 On the right are StBird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear and Ragged Staff. Coloured aquatint. General view over the cattle and sheep stalls at Smithfield market. 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens has a description of Smithfield as being a very busy, crowded and noisy place: 'Countrymen, butchers, drovers, hawkers, boys, thieves, idlers, and vagabonds of every low grade, were mingled together in a mass; the whistling of drovers, the barking of dogs,