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	<description>In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London</description>
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		By: Alan collett		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mum and Dad, Vic and Renee Collett, ran the One Tree Park, cafe in the early 70,s]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mum and Dad, Vic and Renee Collett, ran the One Tree Park, cafe in the early 70,s</p>
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		By: Alia		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 17:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#039;m writing a coursework on Iron architecture and I was looking for photos in color of Coal Exchange. Just want to say that this post is very interesting. Amazing photos and thank you so much for sharing them !]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, I&#8217;m writing a coursework on Iron architecture and I was looking for photos in color of Coal Exchange. Just want to say that this post is very interesting. Amazing photos and thank you so much for sharing them !</p>
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		By: Ron Bunting		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am forever looking for information regarding my Huguenot Ancestry around the East end. My GGgrandfather Benjamin Deffee , A Huguenot surname, had a Fish factor business in the Old billingsgate market with a Mr Charles Booty ,Benjamin died young(ish) at 66 in 1904 but I see the company was still trading as Deffee and Booty at 23 Billingsgate Building ,and again in 1921 at 162 in the Billingsgate building. 
My Ggrandmother ,Lillian Maud Deffee ,was the last member of the family ,her siblings died tragically at very young  ages. I wonder if any of the Family of Charles Booty ,descendants that is,are around today?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am forever looking for information regarding my Huguenot Ancestry around the East end. My GGgrandfather Benjamin Deffee , A Huguenot surname, had a Fish factor business in the Old billingsgate market with a Mr Charles Booty ,Benjamin died young(ish) at 66 in 1904 but I see the company was still trading as Deffee and Booty at 23 Billingsgate Building ,and again in 1921 at 162 in the Billingsgate building.<br />
My Ggrandmother ,Lillian Maud Deffee ,was the last member of the family ,her siblings died tragically at very young  ages. I wonder if any of the Family of Charles Booty ,descendants that is,are around today?</p>
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		By: Mikki French		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have just discovered that my 2 x gt grandfather was an ice merchant who had offices in Love Lane, under the name Horsman and Cannon, in the 1850s. And in his Will proved 1857 he left business stuff to a Fish Factor of Darkhouse Lane. It was lovely to see the photo of the men pushing a load of ice up the hill and all the other photos.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just discovered that my 2 x gt grandfather was an ice merchant who had offices in Love Lane, under the name Horsman and Cannon, in the 1850s. And in his Will proved 1857 he left business stuff to a Fish Factor of Darkhouse Lane. It was lovely to see the photo of the men pushing a load of ice up the hill and all the other photos.</p>
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		By: John Cousins		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 14:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My dad, Jack Cousins, who died 17 years ago in 2002 aged 87 worked as porter for many years before firstly selling fish off the back of a Ford Thames van in Muswell Hill and Finchley. finally acquiring a open-fronted fish shop on Aylma Parade, East Finchley. I worked in the fish game with dad for nearly 12 years stating in 1965 when leaving school aged 16, going down Billingsgate early, buying and loading up the van with fresh fish and then off to the shop. Good days and great memories. I&#039;m 70 today and looked in at this site. God bless dad, what a fabulous start to my working life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dad, Jack Cousins, who died 17 years ago in 2002 aged 87 worked as porter for many years before firstly selling fish off the back of a Ford Thames van in Muswell Hill and Finchley. finally acquiring a open-fronted fish shop on Aylma Parade, East Finchley. I worked in the fish game with dad for nearly 12 years stating in 1965 when leaving school aged 16, going down Billingsgate early, buying and loading up the van with fresh fish and then off to the shop. Good days and great memories. I&#8217;m 70 today and looked in at this site. God bless dad, what a fabulous start to my working life!</p>
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		By: clare page		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My dad worked at a printing company called A G Bishop in Lovat Lane - can anyone remember it or the actual number it was on Lovat Lane ? Thanks in advance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dad worked at a printing company called A G Bishop in Lovat Lane &#8211; can anyone remember it or the actual number it was on Lovat Lane ? Thanks in advance.</p>
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		By: Pauline Allen		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How I love these photograph&#039;s of the old buildings of my memories.
So sad that many are no more.  I used to get off at Blackfriars and 
walk over the bridge to work.  Also, at the Unilever building, same 
side as station.  I also worked in Mincing Lane.  A short walk to the
Monument.  Brings back lots of memories.  Thank you for capturing 
time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How I love these photograph&#8217;s of the old buildings of my memories.<br />
So sad that many are no more.  I used to get off at Blackfriars and<br />
walk over the bridge to work.  Also, at the Unilever building, same<br />
side as station.  I also worked in Mincing Lane.  A short walk to the<br />
Monument.  Brings back lots of memories.  Thank you for capturing<br />
time.</p>
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		By: Dennis Patten		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For me, these photos are both a joy and somewhat tinged with sadness...I was a porter in Billingsgate from 1962 until 1968 when I left for a new life in Canada and the USA. My first job was at Thomas M Wright, shellfish merchants in the bottom left hand corner of the main market, next to Ted Holts Cafe. I also worked for a few years at Vango and Gorman owned partly by Spencer Kingsford, an Australian and relative of Kingsford-Smith, an aviator who has Sydney Airport named after him.
In 2007, I visited Tsukuji Fish market in Japan and was saddened to learn from the Japanese porters, that the Worlds biggest wholesale Fish Market was being moved from the centre of Tokyo to the outer city suburbs...... Since leaving Billingsgate, I have owned a local Canadian newspaper, hosted Radio shows, Mc&#039;d appearance by everyone from Jacquie Collins to Jackie Chan, managed a big Club/Casino. ran wrestling shows in the Fiji Islands and lots more. Today i live in Sydney Australia, married to a Vietnamese woman, with children in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, London and a 22 year old son Marcus in Australia....Not bad for a bloke from Bethnal Green, who once pulled barrows up Monument Street filled with produce from Aberdeen and Grimsby !!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For me, these photos are both a joy and somewhat tinged with sadness&#8230;I was a porter in Billingsgate from 1962 until 1968 when I left for a new life in Canada and the USA. My first job was at Thomas M Wright, shellfish merchants in the bottom left hand corner of the main market, next to Ted Holts Cafe. I also worked for a few years at Vango and Gorman owned partly by Spencer Kingsford, an Australian and relative of Kingsford-Smith, an aviator who has Sydney Airport named after him.<br />
In 2007, I visited Tsukuji Fish market in Japan and was saddened to learn from the Japanese porters, that the Worlds biggest wholesale Fish Market was being moved from the centre of Tokyo to the outer city suburbs&#8230;&#8230; Since leaving Billingsgate, I have owned a local Canadian newspaper, hosted Radio shows, Mc&#8217;d appearance by everyone from Jacquie Collins to Jackie Chan, managed a big Club/Casino. ran wrestling shows in the Fiji Islands and lots more. Today i live in Sydney Australia, married to a Vietnamese woman, with children in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, London and a 22 year old son Marcus in Australia&#8230;.Not bad for a bloke from Bethnal Green, who once pulled barrows up Monument Street filled with produce from Aberdeen and Grimsby !!!</p>
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		By: John		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I should have said - with overtime cutting eels - as a porter in 1969 I was earning in excess of £120 per week some weeks - for the clever ones out there you do the maths to calculate what that would be worth in today&#039;s money!

In those days, sheer hard work could get you up the ladder - it is sad for the youngsters today because these opportunities are now very rare.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should have said &#8211; with overtime cutting eels &#8211; as a porter in 1969 I was earning in excess of £120 per week some weeks &#8211; for the clever ones out there you do the maths to calculate what that would be worth in today&#8217;s money!</p>
<p>In those days, sheer hard work could get you up the ladder &#8211; it is sad for the youngsters today because these opportunities are now very rare.</p>
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		By: John		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The picture of porters outside of the cafe is in Lower Thames Street - this was cleared away in the 70s to make way for new office space/lorry park area.

The picture of Lovat Lane with Morcks shows the old dressing rooms for the porters - not very sophisticated but that was what was special about the old market.

I have visited the new market but please do not underestimate just the sheer volume of fish that used to go through the old market - quite massive compared with today&#039;s tonnage levels!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The picture of porters outside of the cafe is in Lower Thames Street &#8211; this was cleared away in the 70s to make way for new office space/lorry park area.</p>
<p>The picture of Lovat Lane with Morcks shows the old dressing rooms for the porters &#8211; not very sophisticated but that was what was special about the old market.</p>
<p>I have visited the new market but please do not underestimate just the sheer volume of fish that used to go through the old market &#8211; quite massive compared with today&#8217;s tonnage levels!</p>
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