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	Costermonger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Costermongers have existed in London since at least the 16th century, when they were mentioned by Shakespeare.
		Costermongers were notoriously competitive; respected "elder statespeople" in the costermonger community were elected as pearly kings and queens to keep the peace between rival costermongers.
		The activities and lifestyles of 19th century costermongers are comprehensively documented in London Labour and the London Poor, a four volume collection of very erudite and well-researched articles by Henry Mayhew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Costermonger (255 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - London Labour and the London Poor; 1851, 1861-2; ...
		The orange season is called by the costermonger the "Irishman's harvest." Indeed, the street trade in oranges and nuts is almost entirely in the hands of the Irish and their children; and of the children of costermongers.
		All the costermongers with whom I conversed represented that the greater cheapness and abundance of fruit had been anything but a benefit to them, nor did the majority seem to know whether fruit was scarcer or more plentiful one year than another, unless in remarkable instances.
		Among the costermongers I heard this useful root -which the learned in such matters have pronounced to be, along with the mushroom, the foundation of every sauce, ancient or modern -called ing-guns, ingans, injens, injyens, inions, innons, almost everything but onions.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications/mayhew1-3.htm (12684 words)

	Weird Words: Costard
		By then, though, it most commonly appeared in disguise in the name of sellers of fruit: costermongers, so called because they originally sold this type of apple, though by that date they sold all manner of fruit and vegetables and also fish.
		Even in such lowly occupations there was a hierarchy: a person who sold fruit from a basket was a mere hawker, but a costermonger had the dignity of a handcart or sometimes a cart pulled by a donkey.
		Costermongers had the reputation of being tough, hard-living, foul-spoken, often drunk, and always ready for a fight.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-cos2.htm (367 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - Street Life in London - by J.Thomson and Adolphe ...
		Awaiting the moment when the costermonger is able to procure a barrow of his own he must pay eighteen pence per week for the cost of hiring.
		Then he must beware of the police, who have a knack of confiscating these barrows, on the pretext that they obstruct the thoroughfare and of placing them in what is termed the Green Yard, where no less than a shilling per day is charged for the room the barrow is supposed to occupy.
		The unostentatious manner in which this was related to me by one of the costermongers was very characteristic of the freedom with which the poor help each other.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications/thomson-21.htm (1600 words)

	Chapter Crainquebille of Crainquebille by Anatole France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The august character of that justice was brought home to Jérôme Crainquebille, costermonger, when, accused of having insulted a policeman, he appeared in the police court.
		Having taken his place in the dock, he beheld in the imposing sombre hall magistrates, clerks, lawyers in their robes, the usher wearing his chains, gendarmes, and, behind a rail, the bare heads of the silent spectators.
		In his own conscience he was convinced of his innocence; but he felt how insignificant is the conscience of a costermonger in the face of the panoply of the law, and the ministers of public prosecution.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/5/207/591/8658/1.html (666 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Daily Telegraph - 24 October 1888
		It may be said of the London costermongers that, like the poor, they are always with us, and that they are a constant source of vexation of spirit to the parochial authorities.
		The street-keeper was not "on hand," and the poor costermonger was coolly told that he could not have his barrow until the ensuing Thursday.
		At present a costermonger is at the mercy both of the police-constable and of the parochial official.
	www.casebook.org /press_reports/daily_telegraph/dt881024.html (1968 words)

	Take Our Word For It Issue 72
		The word costermonger came to be used as a term of contempt, with Shakespeare first recording it with that sense.
		Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times that true valour is turned bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
		Apparently costermongers were held in contempt because of their selling practices: not only were they seemingly everywhere, hawking their fruit in a bothersome fashion, but they also sometimes sold bad fruit, putting a few good pieces at the top of the bag, those below being rotten.
	www.takeourword.com /Issue072.html (3517 words)

	THE STORY OF A STAGE PLAY (The Mikado)
		The dramatic author is in the position of a caterer who has to supply one dish of which all members of every class of society are invited to partake.
		If he supplies nothing but baked sheeps' head, the costermonger will be delighted, but the epicure will be disgusted.
		Probably the dish that will be acceptable to the largest number of every class is rump steak and oyster sauce, which is, after all, a capital thing in its way, and may be taken as a type of the class of piece which is most likely to succeed.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /ajcrowth/mikado.htm (2926 words)

	Big Bertha Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They do not credit the costermonger, with the definitive experiment, which proves the existence of the new force of nature.
		The costermonger did not magnetize the spider wheel, he exploited a force of nature.
		The costermonger discovered, applied and sold the first working application.
	web.onetel.com /~tonylance/probe.html (423 words)

	Transblawg: Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor' online
		The costermonger’s love of a good strong boot is a singular prejudice that runs throughout the whole class.
		So strong is their predilection in this respect, that a costermonger may be immediately known by a glance at his feet.
		He will part with everything rather than his boots, and to wear a pair of secondhand ones, or “translators” (as they are called), is felt as a bitter degradation by them all.
	www.margaret-marks.com /Transblawg/archives/001212.html (227 words)

	Gus Elen - Windyridge CDR2
		Gus Elen is known as the greatest of the music hall coster comedians.
		The word "coster" comes from "costermonger" - a person who sells articles from a street barrow.
		Born in London in 1862, he started his musical career busking in the streets before his first appearance in the music hall as part of a minstrel duo.
	www.musichallcds.com /cdr2_page.htm (122 words)

	Broken Newz - Researchers Tout Health Benefits of Moderate Heroin Use
		“Well, we were all surprised by the results,” said Dr. Melvin Costermonger, lead researcher of the project.
		Although the Cleveland study has come under attack from religious leaders and politicians, other researchers have begun to replicate the Cleveland results in further controlled experiments.
		Costermonger grinned as he attached a rubber hose to his arm in preparation for his morning fix.
	www.brokennewz.com /technology/heroin.asp (321 words)

	spiked-essays \| Essay \| The making of London's 'white trash'
		Many of his family were costermongers and cabbies, so he writes a lot about their particular trades.
		Collins might not look down on the costermonger, but ultimately he is still asking us to be interested in him 'merely because he is a costermonger'.
		Collins' own version of costermonger culture proves to be indistinguishable from the version peddled by the generations of slummers that he berates.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA870.htm (4115 words)

	Costermonger in JobsletterC. Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		My other blog (on more general topics/readings) CosterMonger on Atom.
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	jobs.seodors.biz /JobsletterC/Costermonger (161 words)

	David Shaw-Parker:My Fair Lady (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Since January 8th 2001, I have been actively involved with Trevor Nunn’s production of Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Lady which opened at the Royal National Theatre on March 6th in the Lyttleton and then transferred to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on July 21st 2001.
		I play the roles of Lord Boxington [Ascot] and First Costermonger [Covent Garden - Wouldn’t It Be Luverly].
		I've also played Doolittle for thirty five performances and Colonel Pickering for twenty but after over eight hundred shows in total I shall be leaving in March 2003.
	www.davidshaw-parker.com /LADY-.htm (311 words)

	OO! Spectacles? by Waterloo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		12 Moving weekday when costermonger's barrow and post came in (6)
		MOTION ("OT" = costermonger's barrow + "I" = post, all inside MON(day))
		INTO (IN (trendy) + "OT" = costermonger's barrow)
	www.crossword.org.uk /g3829.htm (1008 words)

	Episode 2
		A U D R E Y: "To think that Grantleigh Manor has come to this: taken over by a costermonger."
		There is not universal heavy-heartedness at the thought of Audrey's giving up the reins at Grantleigh.
		The newspaper brings further bad news: the headline reads "Supermarket king buys manor," and further notes that "self-made millionaire Richard DeVere began his career on a fruit barrow in London's East End." Audrey is horrified: "To think that Grantleigh Manor has come to this: taken over by a costermonger."
	sophia.smith.edu /~jeue/ToTheManorBorn/Episode2.html (814 words)

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		Gene - Olympian - 7 Inch - UK - Costermonger - 1995
		Gene - Olympian - Cassette - UK - Costermonger - 1995
		Gene - Olympian - CD - UK - Costermonger - 1995
	www.vinyltap.co.uk /shop/title/Olympian.aspx (172 words)

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