ABSTRACT
A cursory glance even at the signboards of Bermondsey shows that the commerce and manufacture of the district are mainly derived from the uses to which hides and skins, with their coverings of hair and wool, and their appendages of horns and hoofs, are subjected. The signboards announce, in thick profusion, dealers in bark, tanners, curriers, French tanners and curriers, leather-dressers, morocco and roan manufacturers, leatherwarehousemen, leather factors, leather dyers, leather enamellers, leather sellers and cutters, hide salesmen, skin salesmen, fellmongers, tawers, parchment makers, wool factors, woolstaplers, wool warehousemen, wool dealers, wool dyers, hair and flock manufacturers, dealers in horns and hoofs, workers in horn, glue makers, size makers, and neat's-foot oil makers. To this list must be added the tradesmen who supply the different implements used by the workmen in the industrial occupations I have enumerated. Occasionally, too, is seen an announcement, not very common in London manufactures, ''tan given away.''
