Terry Bloomfield, Fish Dealer & Photographer
August 17, 2025
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Terry Bloomfield was born in 1934 and grew up in Columbia Rd as the third generation of a family that worked at Billingsgate, where he ran his own shellfish business. Between 1982, when the market moved to the Isle of Dogs, and 2011, when Terry retired, he recorded the life of Billingsgate in thousands of black and white photographs which reveal a candid insider’s viewpoint of this extraordinary nocturnal phenomenon.
Photographs copyright © Terry Bloomfield
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Great photographs! Absolutely great.
I spy Ken Livingstone, not a fishmonger I think.
Good times & considering the unsocial hours, these market workers look very jolly! great shots..
I just arrived at London City from Zurich this morning and passed Billingsgate on the DLR, so I found these photos interesting. I worked in an office near the old Billingsgate, when it shut down a load of mice migrated to our building!