Oysters as Victorian street food — London, 1877. Photographed by John Thomson for Street Life in London, this remarkable image shows a street stall selling oysters and whelks. Oysters weren't always the luxury food we think of today. In Victorian London they were plentiful, cheap and eaten by ordinary working people, sometimes sold for just pennies. Thomson's photographs captured the everyday lives and trades of Londoners rarely recorded by the camera. #LondonHistory #StreetLife #VictorianHistory