tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post7673935563507296454..comments2024-03-28T06:18:17.942-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Pit Brow Wenches and Cat FlayersJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-8976966451531892922015-12-10T16:55:50.241-05:002015-12-10T16:55:50.241-05:00Nice bit of history, I wrote: errhh...
...should h...Nice bit of history, I wrote: errhh...<br />...should have read, in today's nomenclature:<br /><br />"Nice byte of history"<br />:´)Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-79193406196363008132015-12-10T16:38:32.610-05:002015-12-10T16:38:32.610-05:00Here's a fanciful take on some of those occupa...Here's a fanciful take on some of those occupations, in comedic form. I think the Thenardiers in Les Miserables would have been the revolutionary era french equivalent. It seems poverty is an enduring part of the human condition.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Poo-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0857521217<br />frostfyrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12218411416247566367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-49428867928396407372015-12-10T15:53:02.609-05:002015-12-10T15:53:02.609-05:00Hadn't known this that close:
Nice bit of his...Hadn't known this that close:<br /><br />Nice bit of history.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-17983686894951492762015-12-10T14:00:57.139-05:002015-12-10T14:00:57.139-05:00Did anyone else have to look up the term "Gri...Did anyone else have to look up the term "Grimalkin"? Thought for a second it was something from Harry Potter books! jeffkunzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11778948523420524882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-31662274700004695742015-12-10T13:50:20.728-05:002015-12-10T13:50:20.728-05:00They also worked in textile mills. There is a exce...They also worked in textile mills. There is a excellent drama from the British channel 4 called The Mill about the young women and children who worked the mills in the mid 19th century. <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIC0sVnRbUjeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-88777794230803702302015-12-10T11:53:43.297-05:002015-12-10T11:53:43.297-05:00Thanks for that colorful passage, which almost mak...Thanks for that colorful passage, which almost makes me need to take out the deodorizer. I was amazed to read recently that ordinary garbage collection (cans put on the street for garbagemen to pick up) didn't exist before World War I in most American and European cities. It wasn't just horse manure that the street sweepers were cleaning up -- it was everything. James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-597269909483032122015-12-10T11:04:47.177-05:002015-12-10T11:04:47.177-05:00Jim, your post today reminds me of the opening pas...Jim, your post today reminds me of the opening passage in Steven Johnson’s book titled “The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World” (2006):<br /><br />“It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers. Just the names alone read now like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bone-pickers, rag- gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers, shoremen. These were the London underclasses, at least a hundred thousand strong. So immense were their numbers that had the scavengers broken off and formed their own city, it would have been the fifth-largest in all of England.”Jim Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11445910147970356728noreply@blogger.com