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Description: | Covent Garden Market was constructed in stages between 1828 and 1904. The market, and the stalls which had existed on the same site before the market was built, catered to the increasingly wealthy people who lived in the area. Fresh fruit and vegetables were the market?s speciality throughout its early existence, and a flower market was added in 1904. The market was moved to ?New Covent Garden Market? at Nine Elms in Wandsworth in 1974 due to the massive congestion it caused. ?Old Covent Garden? was eventually taken over by the Covent Garden Area Trust, which oversees the preservation of the market and its associated buildings. This photograph from the mid-1920s shows some of the merchandise which was on sale. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society | Subjects: | Cityscape | Temporal: | 1925 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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