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Description: | This drawing records the main market building at Spitalfields in east London at a time when it was still a working wholesale market for fruit and vegetables. Two market handcarts stand outside. Christ Church dominates the background.
Until its closure in the 1980s, Spitalfields was owned by the City of London as a wholesale market for fruit and vegetables. As its business grew, so did the traffic congestion in the narrow streets around it. The fruit market was forced to move and New Spitalfields Market opened in Leyton in May 1991.
For London-born Roland Collins, 'favourite places become obsessive subject matter'. Since the 1930s, Collins has been a sensitive recorder of London's vanishing sights. He is concerned not only with lost buildings, but also with lost lifestyles. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | work Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1951-1960 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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