LONDON: The Independent Shoe-Black: A child shines a shoe in search of a scant reward. Shoeshines who were not part of a registered ???brigade??? were viewed dimly by the local police and were frequently punished. INCREDIBLE colourised photos bring all aspects of Victorian London to life ??" including street sellers, child labourers, and busking musicians. The expertly colourised pictures, which were taken in the 1870s, the same decade that the famous British author Charles Dickens passed away, show a bustling London full of character ??" including flower women selling their wares at Covent Garden; posturing police officers on a recruitment drive at Westminster; and a shoeshine boy doing his best to earn enough money to buy some supper. The photos, portraying all walks of life in the UK capital 150 years ago, have been vividly brought to life by Grant Kemp, a graphic designer with over two decades of experience in his field. Mediadrumimages/GrantKemp/JohnThomson