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61. 'He'd throw me'.
	An alcoholic prostitute describes the extent of her dependence on drink.

62. 'Few who will read'.
	A passage from Andrew Mearns’ Bitter Cry of Outcast London, describing the poverty in which thousands lived.

63. 'Eight feet square'.
	A passage from Andrew Mearns’ Bitter Cry of Outcast London, describing the poverty in which thousands lived.

64. 'Fifty hulls'.
	An extract from Joseph Conrad’s 'The Mirror of the Sea', containing a vivid description of sailing ships in the South West India Dock.

65. George Adams - father's accident.
	George Adams recalls his childhood memories of his father's accident on a lighter and the hardship this caused.

66. 'He carried me to'.
	Extract from Daniel Defoe’s 'Journal of the Plague Year'. In this passage, Defoe takes a trip to Greenwich with a waterman, who explains the...

67. George Adams - lightering conditions
	George Adams recalls his childhood memories of his father working on the barges and lightering conditions.

68. ?Dockmen, lightermen’
	A newspaper account of the rapid spread of the 1889 dock strike, listing the other workers that had come out in sympathy.


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