A respectable gentleman 'decieved', Birmingham Gazette 1828.

[edcartermo]

Charles Dickens was sixteen when this cold bit of business took place but he would

go on to attack the hypocrisy behind such transactions, most famously in his novel,

"Oliver Twist".

Ed.

 

[Charlie]

Mr Bumble was alive and well then! Fascinating stuff.

 

[Radiorails]

Indeed, the 'good old days' that some politicos would have us go back to. :uncomfortableness: