Warren’s Blacking was a leading manufacturer of shoe-black - TopicsExpress



          

Warren’s Blacking was a leading manufacturer of shoe-black (shoe-polish) in the 19th century. Available as a liquid in bottles or as a paste in pots, the blacking was ‘sold in every town in the kingdom’ as this advertisement boasts. Charles Dickens worked at Warrens Blacking Factory when he was 12 years old, during the period his father was imprisoned for debt. His job was to paste labels on to the blacking pots. There he experienced his first taste of the degradations of poverty and manual labour.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:56:55 +0000

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