Two
bone pickers. One fellow liked to stitch together patches
of off-cut material, which he then attached to his coat
which was composed of some hundreds of pieces of bits
of old velvet, carpet etc. This fellow wandered about
the parish of St Martin’s in the Field, where he
was sometimes accused of stealing doormats (possibly with
the intention of attaching them to his coat also). The
bone pickers delivered the bones they gathered to the
burners at Haggerstone, Shoreditch, and Battlebridge,
for which they were paid two shillings a bushel.
