Fall Asleep as a Match Seller Walking the Streets of Victorian London

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Step into the foggy streets of Victorian London and experience a day in the life of an ordinary match seller. Long before sunrise, you leave a cold lodging house with a bundle of matches beneath your arm and spend the day walking through crowded streets filled with coal smoke, horse-drawn traffic, and endless strangers.

As you wander through markets, wealthy neighborhoods, rain-soaked alleys, and bustling commercial districts, you witness the many faces of one of the world's largest...