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Esoteric Trades and Tradesmen of Victorian London
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  • 1. Nocturnal remover of urban cesspools, a malodorous but essential task
  • 2. Notorious procurer in clandestine adoption trade, grim shadow of infancy
  • 3. Hand-cranked street smoother for icy laneways, predecessor to modern gritting
  • 4. Nocturnal technician who ignited the nightly glow before electric dawn
  • 6. Small-scale cobbler, stitching with nimble fingers in cramped garrets
  • 11. Pursuer of vermin in labyrinthine alleys, a necessary scourge of urban pestilence
  • 12. Picker through detritus, salvaging forgotten value from industrial waste
  • 13. Scavenger of tidal debris and refuse along the Thames’ silt-stained edges
  • 14. Peripatetic mender of household metalwares, cloak of perpetual itinerancy
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  • 5. Artisan skillfully molding rendered fat into luminous Victorian beacons
  • 7. Collector of polecats and other vermin skins, supplying furriers and tanneries
  • 8. Operator of sedan chairs ferrying gentry through foggy thoroughfares
  • 9. A rudimentary dentist wielding pliers where formal medicine dared not tread
  • 10. Craftsman weaving wattle for livestock barriers, rustic yet vital
  • 15. Collector of castoffs and animal remnants, broker of Victorian recyclables
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