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Description: | This photograph captures a market tradesman pushing for a sale of one of the carpets on his stall. Cyril Arapoff photographed these potential buyers as they browsed in Caledonian Market, which was a mecca for bargain hunters, collectors and general shoppers.
The marketplace came alive on Tuesdays and Fridays, leaving the remaining time to the cattle trade. A census in 1930 recorded that on Fridays, 2100 stallholders would race through the gates to claim a good pitch. Items were displayed for sale on carts, stalls or mostly laid out on ground sheets.
Arapoff produced numerous photographs in and around Caledonian Market | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Leisure Cityscape | Temporal: | 1935 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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