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Offline skiguy

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Photos of London's poor in the 1870s
« on: April 01, 2012, 05:49:04 PM »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123212/Black-white-pictures-capture-lives-Londoners-1800s.html

Public Disinfectors (picture towards bottom), certainly wouldn't want that job.  I wonder what their life expentancy was
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Re: Photos of London's poor in the 1870s
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 01:13:16 AM »
I wonder how exactly they "disinfected" things.
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Re: Photos of London's poor in the 1870s
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Re: Photos of London's poor in the 1870s
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 07:41:58 AM »
All I can say is thank God I live in the time that I do
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Re: Photos of London's poor in the 1870s
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 08:01:34 AM »
Gritty indeed.
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