While clarinet and organ players entertain the crowd, buskers were a controversial subject of the time. The street music ‘problem’ emerged in light of the growing middle classes and the disruption the buskers caused their home-lives. Debates involving notable figures such as Charles Dickens, Charles Leech, and Charles Babbage resulted in the development of the Street Music Act of 1864, paving the way for much of the subsequent legislative control of street musicians in the City