Skin Alley

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Skin Alley ... a red light area over 100 years ago. The jail is now a restaurant adorned with a stain glass window. If those walls could talk.

 

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The undersides of cities old enough to have red-light districts can deepen our understanding of lost worlds.
Your post brought to mind the Harris guide books to prostitution in Georgian London--his famous annual 'List of Covent-Garden Ladies.' Skin trade profits contributed significantly to real estate development that made London the world's largest city by 1800.

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

As historical documents, the surviving editions of *Harris’s List* offer today’s readers a rare glimpse into London's 18th-century sex trade.

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