- have
pointed out that a
hierarchy existed within the
costermonger class and that
while costermongers sold from a
handcart or animal-drawn cart, mere hawkers...
-
street sweeper who
collected money for charity. At the time,
London costermongers (street traders) were in the
habit of
wearing trousers decorated at...
- the sale of non-perishable
items such as
brushes and
cookware while costermongers are
exclusively ****ociated with the sale of
fresh produce. When accompanied...
-
peculiar slang language" (****ney
rhyming slang) when
describing the
costermongers of the East End.
Since the
start of the 21st
century the
extreme form...
- Mitchinson, John (23
March 2009). "QI:
Quite Interesting facts about costermongers". The
Daily Telegraph.
Archived from the
original on 27
February 2009...
-
would sell
their produce from a
wheelbarrow or
wheeled market stall.
Costermongers have
existed in
London since at
least the 16th century, when they were...
-
refers to "their use of a
peculiar slang language" when
describing the
costermongers of London's East End. A
dialectological study of
Leytonstone in 1964...
- only by newsboys, but by dockworkers, high
steel workers, shipwrights,
costermongers, farmers, beggars, bandits, artisans, and
tradesmen of many types. This...
- vegetables) from two-wheeled barrows.
London street traders were
called costermongers (from costard, the
mediaeval word for apple) and more
generally barrow...
- upon
thousands of street-traders were
generally lumped together as
costermongers.
Alongside these relatively familiar forms of
trade in
consumer goods...
