Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian

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Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print Peter Ackroyd is an award-winningBook illustration showing Pickle Herring Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold writes of his visit to Pickle Herring Street with Dor: 'At the cost of sundry blows and much buffeting from the hastening crowds we make notes of Pickle Herring Street: now pushed to the road, and now driven against the wall. The hard visaged men, breathlessly competing for dear life, glance, mostly with an eye of wondering