Here are some of the capital's oldest, oddest jobs.
A tosher was a person who scavenged in the sewers for valuables, "tosh" being a word for copper. Journalist-cum-sociologist Henry Mayhew's four-volumeobserved and interviewed a number of men who worked in "that subterranean city of sewerage".
The perruquier used goat, yak, horse or human hair and wove and knotted individual strands around threads, which were then attached, in rows, to a base of netting. The final stages included curling, dying, powdering, and pomades. It is a form of recycling still going strong. The Port of Tilbury, London's major port, is the starting point for trains carrying up to 1,200 tonnes of raw glass cullet travelling to Cheshire, where it is turned into new bottles and containers.
They would buy in bulk from the auctioneer and portion his purchase into convenient parcels to sell on to fishmongers.
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