perfect!
Cheers
On 6 Jun 2008, at 12:10, Peter Freshwater wrote:
> Hi Angela
>
> Crossing-sweepers were essential in Dickens' London to enable
> pedestrians to cross the roads dry and relatively free of mud and
> filth. The best-known crossing sweeper in Dickens's works is Jo in
> Bleak House, who is one of the key witnesses (although discounted at
> the time) at the inquest on Captain Nemo. I cannot help identify "the
> black man that swept the crossing" but the job is one that Black
> people might have done. Of course, he might have been black from the
> mud on the road with which he spent his working life in close contact,
> just as sweeps and their boys were black from soot.
>
> Does this help at all?
>
> Peter
>
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Many thanks
Angela Allison
Coventry, UK
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