Billingsgate Market 1851

Billingsgate Market 1851Billingsgate Market, 1851. As late as 1840 Billingsgate consisted only of sheds, and the market seen here was designed in 1850 by J. B. Bunning, the City Architect, who also built the Coal Exchange. In 1850, the City Corporation instructed its architect, James Bunning, to replace the old dock and fish market at Billingsgate. The dock was filled in and a new building constructed overlooking the Thames. The new market opened in 1852, but the facilities

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Coloured aquatint with engraving

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Panoramic View of London from a point above the present day Tower Bridge

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When children were evacuated out of London during the Second World War

the 16th Lancers

while the docks in London itself declined and were closed

A corner of the grand first floor room at the London Tavern at Bishopsgate

This painting captures the atmosphere of late 19th-century London