Comments on: The Markets Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: cristiano https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1458892 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:26:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1458892 Abraços do Brasil.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384813 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:41:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384813 Every one of these images excited me! I also love markets, and one year travelling across Thailand, went to markets that traded before dawn, or others that started around midnight. The colour, sounds, and smells were a joy to the senses. The last time I went to Borough Market, it felt almost genteel! Although long gone now, the Sumerays (Monty & Enid) who were family friends, owned the turkey Christmas business at Smithfield. I have a wonderful picture of them from October 1968, when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother visited them at Smithfield. Actually Mr Sumeray ran it with his brother-in-law, so the business was called Sumeray & Rodgers. Coincidentally, I was in touch with the Sumeray’s niece just 2 days ago, who I’ve known since we were children in the 1950s. She appropriately lives in Covent Garden another famous market site from our growing up years.

]]> By: sara midda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384747 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:50:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384747 Amazing.

]]> By: Karen Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384743 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:47:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384743 thankyou again, for sharing these great Market photos. Particularly love the two Covent Garden ones, which remind me of Edward Bawden’s linocut of the market, (similar viewpoint), only packed with people!

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384739 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:07:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384739 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what an interesting collection of pictures featuring the marketplaces of the past.

When go to London, I stay at the Strand Palace (across from the pricey Savoy). So I often stroll up to Kingsway and Aldwych. I often wondered how these streets were developed. I assumed it was after the extensive bombing of WWII. Now I know – the area was “Clare Market slum…swept away to create the grand civic gestures of Kingsway and Aldwych” at the turn of the 20th century.

Missing London today…

]]> By: Peter Hart https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384734 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:49:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384734 Amazing photos. Thank you GA

]]> By: Lorraine Naidoo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/05/the-markets-of-old-london-o/#comment-1384733 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:34:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187873#comment-1384733 I’m delighted to see these photos. I grew up in central London and I always chuckle to myself when I remember how these places looked then, and how posh they are now! I have family connections with the markets. My grandmother was born in Clare Market. My father and uncles worked as Covent Garden market porters in the 50’s. I remember going shopping at weekends with my mother and grandmother in Exmouth Market, near Mount Pleasant, Chapel Market in Islington, and Leather Lane. Some years ago, I saw a print of Exmouth Market in an art shop in Upper Street and I regret that I didn’t buy it then. Does anyone know whether prints of any of the markets are available? I’d be grateful for info.

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