The Dogs Of Old London

A lovely post at Spitalfields Life on the dogs of old London - the guard dogs, the lap dogs, the stray dogs, the police dogs, the performing dogs, the dogs of the blind, the dogs of the ratcatchers, the dogs of the watermen, the cadaver dogs, the mutts, the mongrels, the curs, the hounds and the puppies. It draws from Libby Hall's enormous collection of dog photography.

The first dog to be buried here was run over outside the gatekeeper’s lodge,
setting a fashionable precedent, and within twenty-five years
the gatekeeper’s garden was filled with over three hundred upper class pets.

Photographs copyright © The Libby Hall Collection at the Bishopsgate Institute

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