The Markets of Old London (2024) (spitalfieldslife.com)

(2024)

Billingsgate is amazing love getting fish there

Ridley Road Market is not mentioned but worth a visit

I love these old pictures of London. You can feel the life.

At the time London was the largest city in the world at the centre of the large emprie of all time.

No wonder Dracula was making a beeline for it.

Beautiful images of Capitalism building itself.

I sometimes wonder if city life used to be more bustling, or if photographers just avoided taking pictures of places without many people.

The past feels so alive!

Great picture! Those crowded streets were no doubt a pickpockets dream.

I live in Spitalfields. I'm sometimes in awe of all the history here.

I used to live next to Borough market and saw it devolve from a genuine working class market to a chi-chi hive. The old pie and mash shop was replaced by offices and high-end trinket shops, as were all the other old-school business. It was like watching someone you love being embalmed whilst still alive. I now live in Asia where the market tradition are still vivid and alive.

In the 2000s British presenter Adam Hart-Davis did a TV series called "How London Was Built". The whole thing is on YouTube now, I highly recommend it.

This episode covered markets and shops. It's fun stuff: https://youtu.be/1vX70fmD_7o

The whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxZAPogJjW_gywFGgM61y...