Hookey Alf, a coal porter on the right of the picture, outside a Whitechapel pub. From John Thomson's book 'Street Life in London'.
Hookey Alf, a coal porter on the right of the picture, outside a Whitechapel pub. From John Thomson's book 'Street Life in London'.
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Hookey Alf, a coal porter on the right of the picture, outside a Whitechapel pub. From John Thomson's book 'Street Life in London'.
SC_PHL_02_0953_74_960 (Collage 281837)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
After an accident left him unable to work, he waited outside pubs or railway stations trying to get work selling matches or light manual labour.
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