These historical photos show the meat main traders of indifferent cats who were once a common scene in Victorian London.
Men of cats meat were street sellers in the 18th and 19th century Britain, who, for cats and dogs, mainly sold slanting meat to horse meat. Entrepreneurs push vehicles to animal lovers or fill the wooden tray with cheap meat soaked meat so that they can be shown fresh. These vendors are often completed in working class homes, where pets buy small portions to feed their animals.
The black and white photos of the meat men of cats come from a variety of sources and now passed into a public domain. Francis James Mortimmer, a famous British photographer who edited Amateur photographer For decades in the early 20th century, one of the best images took to show a line of cats and dogs in the hope of a sliver of meat.
The business was surprisingly attractive. As the newspaper below suggests, Victorian alone had men of thousands of cats in London – serving around 300,000 failins in the city. Some of them built loyal customer bases, and many had determined the routes, calling their goods in specific cry. Public domain review Write This call “CA-D-Mi!” It seemed like
The routes were closely preserved and disagreement would happen when someone tried to sell on a road which was not theirProfessional threats were also: one 1876 photo Illustrated police news The meat of a cats is being attacked by a packet of dogs.
The quality of meat varies widely, as some vendors dealt with fresh cuts, while others sold highly suspected offals. Despite the serious nature of the job, the men of the cats were a head of the life of the city, mentioned in literature by Charles Dickens and other writers of the era.
In the early 20th century, the rise of commercially packed pet food and strict rules on the sale of meat gradually excluded trade from trade. Thankfully, these pictures give us an attractive glimpse in the quarkers of urban life in Old London.
