A young ham-sandwich seller
street seller · London, England · 19th century
A young man who sold ham sandwiches every night at the doors of London theatres. His name has not come down. The journalist Henry Mayhew took down his words around 1850.
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c. 1850 · A young man who sold ham sandwiches at theatre doors every night. Customers ask for more ham in them, he says, though he is starving on what he makes.
“But mine’s a wretched life, and so is most ham sandwich-men. I’ve no enjoyment of my youth, and no comfort.”
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1 · the ham-sandwich sellers
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