Victorian times Chimney Sweeps lived a horrible life in 19th Century London. This genuine account of the hard lives of 19th Century chimney sweeps is an accurate documentary history of everyday Victorian poverty as recorded in 1877 by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. Thompson was a talented and influential photographer who joined with Smith, a journalist, in a project to photograph the street life of London’s poor. Their volumes were an early example of social and documentary photography in England. The descriptions really bring to life the photographs that accompany them and paint a picture of the Victorian era – in a time before moving pictures could do the same. What’s more remarkable is that the authors were careful not to varnish their words for an audience – what they saw and heard accurately reflects their interactions with street folk and, with ambience and sounds, genuinely immerses the reader in authentic Victorian street life.

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