A brief guide to retail London*
* in the Seventeenth Century.
I enjoy reading Lucy Inglis’s website Georgian London which as you can imagine is a geographical and time specific blog. She has a fascinating perspective on our wonderful city and she writes very nicely too. Lucy brings an expert’s knowledge and a fan’s enthusiasm to her in depth exploration of a wonderful London niche. You can also follow Lucy on twitter.
Today’s post is an overview of what shopping was like in the time of Samuel Pepys. I hadn’t realised that water was brought in from the surrounding areas in hods (hence origin of hod carriers) for sale to the Londoners. I also love the image of the Welsh milkmaids traipsing around London with their cows and asses (for the cow milk intolerant) and milking on demand for the London household. Much more fun than Ocado.