IN THE DAYS OF TICKET. PORTERS.
"The Ticket Porter" tavern, in Arthur Street, near the Monument* in London, was formerly, as its name implies, a favourite meeting-place of the ticket porters, the aristocrats of the riverside labourers before the coming of the docks. In those days, when all vessels entering the Port of London had to unload their cargoes into lighters moored alongside in ths river, the ticket porters and the tackle porters between them... alone possessed the right to handle all seaborne coal, corn, ealt, and sundry other commodities. They "wore the city arms as their badge, and kept count of the loads they carried by means of curious leathern tallies, many specimens of which are preserved in the Guildhall, Museum.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)
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122IN THE DAYS OF TICKET. PORTERS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)
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