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Description: | Billingsgate Market was opened in 1876 to house the traders in fish who had been selling their wares in the area since at least the 16th Century. In common with many other London markets, vendors had been operating on the site since the Middle Ages (before, even, the area had become associated with the selling of fish). The market, by now a wholesale market, moved to the Docklands area in 1982, its former home becoming a corporate events venue. This photograph shows a large number of vendors hawking their wares under signs showing the names and addresses of their shops and offices. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society | Subjects: | Cityscape | Temporal: | c1910 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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