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Execution Dock is in Wapping, London, and it is here that many criminals were executed for piracy and murder. Under the English legal system, the Admiralty Court dealt with all crimes committed on the high seas, and for at least 500 years, Execution Dock was where its capital sentences were carried out. So that it [more...]

A Mud-Lark (or Mudlark) was the name given in the 19th century to children and adults who scavenged the banks of the River Thames in London. There were river scavengers in other parts of the country, but it seems the term Mud-Lark was largely used in London. According to the OED, the first mention of [more...]