The cat's meat man pushed his barrow around East End streets selling cheap meat to families as pet food.
The cat's meat man pushed his barrow around East End streets selling cheap meat to families as pet food. Often horsemeat, it was unfit for human consumption and sometimes even too rotten for pets. In picture 3 The decoration on the house marks the coronation of Edward VII. A missionary from the London City Mission is standing in the centre with the family.
This photograph is one of many taken by John Galt, a missionary with the London City Mission and an amateur photographer. The photographs show conditions in the East End and were used to illustrate lantern slide lectures which were given to raise funds for the work of the mission. Galt’s intention was to show that, contrary to popular middle-class belief, the people of the East End were worthy of salvation.
Watch out for the "Cats Meat Man"
This photograph is one of many taken by John Galt, a missionary with the London City Mission and an amateur photographer. The photographs show conditions in the East End and were used to illustrate lantern slide lectures which were given to raise funds for the work of the mission. Galt’s intention was to show that, contrary to popular middle-class belief, the people of the East End were worthy of salvation.
Watch out for the "Cats Meat Man"
I would love to see more of Galt's photos. Thanks for these!
ReplyDeleteYou had been so good with this interesting story!
ReplyDeleteDarran Hughes I do agree with the others here. I would like to see more of Galt's photo's and this is quite an interesting story.
ReplyDeleteI note that you say the meat wasn't fit for humans. But I wonder just how many needed to try and use it to survive. I know here, every now and then stories circulate about the elderly in poverty, and that eating Cat food instead of Tuna is a cheaper alternative they sometimes employ. Dog food too. Sad.