See the COVE Master Map entry on Greenwich:

https://editions.covecollective.org/place/greenwich

In London Labour and the London Poor edition:

Phase 1

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "Of the bird-catchers, including all who reside in Woolwich, Greenwich, Hounslow, Isleworth, Barnet, Uxbridge, and places of similar distance, all working for the London market, there are about 200."

London Considered as a Great World. (The Great World of London): "Viewing the Great Metropolis, therefore, as an absolute world, Belgravia and Bethnal Green become the opposite poles of the London sphere - the frigid zones, as it were, of the Capital; the one icy cold from its exceeding fashion, form, and ceremony; and the other wrapt in a perpetual winter of withering poverty. Of such a world, Temple Bar is the unmistakable equator, dividing the City hemisphere from that of the West End, and with a line of Banks, representative of the Gold Coast, in its immediate neighbourhood. What Greenwich, too, is to the merchant seamen of England, Charing Cross is to the London cabmen - the zero from which all the longitudes of the Metropolitan world are measured."

Of the Mud-Larks. (Volume 2): "But there are, in addition to the mud-larks employed in the neighbourhood of what may be called the pool, many others who work down the river at various places as far as Blackwall, on the one side, and at Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich, on the other. These frequent the neighbourhoods of the various "yards" along shore, where vessels are being built; and whence, at certain times, chips, small pieces of wood, bits of iron, and copper nails, are washed out into the river."

Phase 2

Of Street Piemen. (Volume 1)

Of the Life of a Street-Seller of Dog-Collars. (Volume 1)

Of the Street-Buyers of Rags, Broken Metal, Bottles, Glass, and Bones. (Volume 2)

LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN. (Volume 3)

The Railways. (Volume 3)

Statement of a Beggar. (Volume 1)

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