Comments on: Roy Reed At Billingsgate Market https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/03/roy-reed-at-billingsgate-market-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Walton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/03/roy-reed-at-billingsgate-market-i/#comment-1521167 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:07:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195279#comment-1521167 See more great images of the old fish market in the City here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1728210357353138

Someone here asked how the market operated. In short, it was samples market. Porters would shore in “samples” of the fish on sold and there was an unwritten assurance between seller and buyer that if they bought off the strength of the sample then everything else would be the same. This meant that the majority of stock would be held outside on lorries awaiting delivery to customer vans by the licenced porters. I believe that this practice occurred both at the old market in the pictures above and also at the new market after it moved in 1982. This all changed aorund10 years ago when the licensed porter system was disbanded by the Corporation.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/03/roy-reed-at-billingsgate-market-i/#comment-1506041 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 07:24:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195279#comment-1506041 Fabulous images, each with its own story

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/03/roy-reed-at-billingsgate-market-i/#comment-1505831 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:51:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195279#comment-1505831 What I am most in need of, in this context, is an idea of how a market like Billingsgate actually worked, i.e. some ‘text’ to connect the ‘dots’ provided by the images.

Is there anyone alive who can provide such connecting details, I wonder?

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/03/roy-reed-at-billingsgate-market-i/#comment-1505822 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:06:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195279#comment-1505822 Thank you Roy and the GA. Breathe in deeply and you will smell it!

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