Stave 1 : Repairing the Gas-Pipes

"In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture."

I am making two images for this (although I am completing them in reverse order...art doesn't tend to follow a straight line).  The first image is an aerial view of the workmen doing the repair work at the top of the image, with the street people at the bottom of the image.  This image is an unfinished preliminary sketch.  The second image, which is finished, "breaks the fourth wall", showing the workmen's brazier from the perspective of one of the street people (a child).  

I have relied on two main sources for this.  The first is, of course, Wikipedia : 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manufactured_gas

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_the_retorts_at_the_Great_Gas_Establishment_Brick_Lane.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_plant_Accum_(1815).JPEG

My second source is my own experience, of working construction many years ago, and of witnessing people suffering obvious and needless poverty in the United States and elsewhere, notably Southeast Asia.