Workers on the Silent Highway
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The 'Silent Highway' was the Thames, and these are the bargemen who worked it. It was a hard, rootless life. Families moved so often that plenty of bargemen's kids never got to school, and some babies were born in the dark, cramped cabins. The rules were a bit lopsided, too. One owner was fined a pound because his name wasn't painted clearly on his barge, while another man got just ten shillings for sinking a boat worth £100. John Thomson photographed them in 1877 for Street Life in London.
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