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2: The Greengrocer and the Pickled-Herring Man Tom Vernon goes to London's East End in search of survivors of the coster-life that Henry Mayhew described 140 years ago in London Labour and the London Poor.
In this, the second of two programmes, he meets
Bob Wheeler who sells vegetables, and Bert Daltrey who has a pickled-herring stall in the Roman Road Market. Producer joy HATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
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Henry Mayhew
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Bob Wheeler
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Bert Daltrey
Source: Radio Times

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