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The New Cut - Evening, Waterloo. A print from Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor' of 1861, showing crowd outside the Victoria Theatre (later the Old Vic). The text states there are low lodging houses in the New Cut - There is a class of women technically known as 'Bunters' who take lodgings and after staying some time said she never paid any rent hadn't done for years and never meant to.

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Image type:	Print
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Ref:	14086
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Date:	1861

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