Lives of Famous London Beggars / With Forty Portraits of the Most Remarkable.

by John Thomas Smith

William Tomlins, a crossing-sweeper, who stood at Albemarle and St James's Streets.

The next character portrayed is a constant sweeper of the crossing at the top of Ludgate Hill. This man finds it his interest to wear a cloth round his head, as he is on that account frequently noticed by elderly maiden city dames, who mistake him for one of their own sex.

PLATE XIX.

Sweeper of the crossing at the top of Ludgate Hill.

The crossing from Charles Street to Rathbone Place is swept by Daniel Cropp, as filthy a looking fellow as any of his tribe. In order to render himself noticed, he literally combs his hair with his opened fingers. He at present differs from the etching, by wearing a fireman's jacket.

PLATE XX.

Daniel Cropp, sweeper of the crossing from Charles Street to Rathbone Place.

The next plate represents a lad who occasionally sweeps the crossing at the end of Princes Street, Hanover Square, and wears a large waistcoat, surmounted by a soldier's jacket.