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LONDON: Furniture sales: Adolphe Smith ??" ??sAT the corner of Church Lane, Holborn, there was a second-hand furniture dealer, whose business was a cross between that of a shop and a street stall. The dealer was never satisfied unless the weather allowed him to disgorge nearly the whole of his stock into the middle of the street, a method which alone secured the approval and custom of his neighbours.??? Unfortunately, Church Lane was in ??sdisagreeable proximity??? to New Oxford Street and the shop???s wares were not to a high enough standard so the shopkeeper and many of his neighbours found it untenable to live in the area in the forthcoming years. 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