9 Tips for Avoiding London Pickpockets from a 19th Century Guide
London streets in the other 19th century could be dangerous place . InThe London Guide and Stranger ’s Safeguard Against the Cheats , Swindlers , and Pickpockets that bristle within the Bills of Mortality , constitute a Picture of London as Regards Active Life , print in 1819 , “ a gentleman who has made the police of the metropolis an object of enquiry twenty - two days ” assay to avail unknown to the city head off fall victim to all manner of crime — including diving , otherwise known as pickpocketing ....