Comments on: London Market Chit-Chats

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:55:01 +0000

Now, thats what i call a hive of activity! Wonderful market photos. Thank you.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:42:05 +0000

Wonderful photos – absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I imagine that the photo of the Smithfield porters is nearer 1920, judging by the dress of the woman in the background.

By: Nicholas Keeble

Nicholas Keeble — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:25:40 +0000

First-rate: thank you.

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:10:52 +0000

Wonderful evocative old photographs.

By: Steve Rainbow

Steve Rainbow — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:54:04 +0000

Wonderful photos from a vanished world.
I remember the Joys of the Smithfield Market atmosphere where my Uncle Ted was a Meat Porter.
Caledonian Road was a vast slaughterhouse stinking up the Area and making the Cally an awful place to visit and worse to live in.

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:49:51 +0000

Wonderful images. Those taken in 1910 make me sad because four years later a lot of the young men/boys we see in the photos would be off to war, many never to return.

By: Ros Dick

Ros Dick — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:11:41 +0000

Am I the only person who pores over these photos with a magnifying glass?
I’ve no idea what I’m looking, for it’s just the faces are so fascinating -as they look back at me,bold as brass and so very alive

By: Pamela V. Cullen

Pamela V. Cullen — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:58:59 +0000

Working on unpublished diaries (70 years of them) I found that Leadenhall Market sold live foxes in the 19th Century. There was certainly a shortage of them in southern England and these were brought in from the Continent and bought by hunts to stock their areas. Apparently some wolf cubs were also included!

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:01:56 +0000

Wonderful, atmospheric photos today. Valerie

By: Georgina Briody

Georgina Briody — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:38:38 +0000

Oh how great to see the London markets, many of which I worked or lived near. Growing up I was a regular shopper at East Street market and danced amongst the meat hooks of Smithfields market to the Syd Lawrence Orchestra and George Melly when Bart’s Hospital held a Ball back in the 1970s. Happy memories.