‘The Fixture List’ – Putney Bridge (1715)

The exodus south. White and black and the occasional blue and white of ‘Cottagers walking  with Terriers’. Into the mix enter girls in gothic (velvet) black, bearing spider webs across their faces. A man wearing a tricorn, and holding a musket, stands outside a bar proclaiming reduced drinks prices. The regular weekly occurrence v the annual. 

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