Frank Thomas Bullen in Edgware Road, London - between in the middle of the 1860's and at the end of the 1860's
from Confessions of a Tradesman , page 12:
I had very little to do here [a trunk-maker’s] in the way of errand- running, but I had no idle moments, and when not occupied in the almost interminable job of dusting the stock and cleaning out the shop, I could always find work below [in the workshop], making paste and lining the cheap boxes we made for servants. And here I was quite happy, for the journeyman was a genial soul and beguiled the time with jokes and snatches of song, often too giving me a portion of his frugal dinner or a halfpenny, which I promptly invested in "broken stale " at the baker's hard by[.]
Frank T. Bullen, Confessions of a Tradesman (London, 1908), p. 12. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1663677453077 accessed: 22 November, 2024
Listeners
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Author, carver gilder, picture frame maker, clerk civil service, merchant seaman […] Listening to
hide composers| unspecified singing while working | performed by a trunk maker |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between in the middle of the 1860's and at the end of the 1860's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | indoors, in public, solitary |
Notes
Frank Bullen was orphaned aged nine, living on the streets of London by his wits, doing a range of odd jobs until the age of twelve (1869) when he joined the Merchant Navy as a cabin boy.