Colourised photos :Covent Garden Underground station 1927
 

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[The greenest or the most intense green spot
in London was the fruit and vegetable market
of Covent Garden.' Touching on the history
of the market, the book says that in
the early 1700s, shops were set up in
two rows in the area.
This market expanded in the middle
of the 19th century, selling vegetables,
fruit and flowers. 'It became the most famous
market in England,' the book reveals.
Today, the 'bustle of the old trades has
gone from Covent Garden but the spirit
of the market survives in the new life
of the piazza where the street musicians,
jugglers, acrobats, as well as the shops
and restaurants of the present consumer
period, still thrive' ]

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The first female bus drivers attempt at reverse parking. Colourised.

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Put the Date with it, Lazy Slim


Sept 9th 1940

Looks the same as today if you swapped the horses for brown people.

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Fleet Street 1915


[A rainy day on Fleet Street in October 1915
is depicted in this picture.
Discussing the presence of advertising
on the streets of London, Ackroyd
writes that by the middle of the
19th century, London's business premises
had 'a variety of papier-mache ornaments
or paintings to denote the trade of the occupant'.
'Many coffee houses had a symbol of a loaf
and cheese together with a cup... the destruction
of Pompeii seemed a fitting advertisement for
a patent cockroach exterminator,' the book says.
By the end of the 19th century,
the ground-floor shops of the city provided
'bursts of colour and variety' with their signs]

i got married in Fleet Street :hee:

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My first camera genuinely looked like this

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