Keywords: Thomson, The crawlers.jpg The crawlers 1876 - 1877 Woodburytype by John Thomson According to Street Life in London Old 'Scotty' had been the wife of a wealthy man who spent all his money before dying leaving her penniless and one of London's 'crawlers' beggars She told John Thomson 'I am becoming more accustomed to it now What however I cannot endure is the awful lazy idle life I am forced to lead; it is a thousand times worse than the hardest labour and I would much rather my hands were cut blistered and sore with toil than as you see them swollen and red and smarting from the exposure to the sun the rain and the cold ' http //www dailymail co uk/news/article-2487041/Dickens-London-brought-life-Fascinating-snapshot-Victorian-street-traders-taken-dawn-photography html ixzz2jjYkKOdC NLS Collections http //www nls uk/digitallibrary/thomson/sixth81 htm en wikipedia Richard001 CommonsHelper PD-old-70 original upload log page en wikipedia Thomson 2C_The_crawlers jpg 2006-05-27 18 34 Cactus man 350×411×8 31061 bytes <nowiki>The crawlers 1876 - 1877 Woodburytype by John Thomson In the public domain Source http //www nls uk/digitallibrary/thomson/sixth81 htm PD-old-70 </nowiki> Street Life in London 1877 |