Step inside Victorian London's most miserable shop as we enter a 19th Century pawnbroker. This is where the bane of the poor and working classes made their money. The pawnbroker was ever-present in the lives of many a poor family – friend and enemy in equal measure. If you needed money and you had clothes or valuables to put up as collateral, you might secure much needed funds to pay the rent, buy food or, depending on how low life had brought you – drink. Find out what desperate and terrible characters you could find in a visit to a Victorian pawnbroker in an account by Charles Dickens.
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