https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/06/at-the-new-spitalfields-fruit-vegetable-market/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/06/at-the-new-spitalfields-fruit-vegetable-market/#comment-1356343 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:34:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=11565#comment-1356343 In 1978 at the age of 11 I spent the night at work with my dad who was one of the market guards. It remains a vivid memory of smells, noises and people of a fantastical world I had never seen before or since. These photographs catch the atmosphere of the market perfectly. Wandering around the fruit & wool exchange in the pitch black was a scary experience. I don’t know how dad could see where he was going.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/06/at-the-new-spitalfields-fruit-vegetable-market/#comment-251295 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:32:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=11565#comment-251295 This is how I remember the market! When I started work one of my first jobs was phoning an enormous list of customers in all of the London Markets including Spitalfields, trying to sell Essex early potatoes and Egyptian potatoes. I occasionally went up overnight with the lorries to make the deliveries. My Father has great stories to tell of his time supplying potatoes to the markets going back to the early 60’s. We also worked closely with Bennetts based in the London Fruit Exchange.

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