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Fish wharf at Billingsgate Market CC72_01834

BILLINGSGATE MARKET, Lower Thames Street, City of London. Looking from London Bridge down the Thames with the Tower of London in the distance, and the old Billingsgate Market in the foreground to the left. For centuries this was the main wharf for fishing vessels to unload and moor, with the Custom House next door. Photographed by Henry Taunt in 1880

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St Giles Fair, Oxford

St Giles Fair, Oxford, Oxfordshire, September 1905.
Photographed by Henry William Taunt (1842-1922) on silver gelatin glass plate negative. Despite the bustle of St Giles's Fair, the photographer Henry Taunt has inevitably attracted attention perched, presumably on a stepladder, above the fairgoers. Employees of the ornately decorated Taylor's Royal Electric Coliseum are drumming up business, and a Fried Fish and Chip Potato wagon stands beside the gas lamp. St Giles'??s Fair had evolved from a parish wake first mentioned in 1624 into a major amusement fair with special trains bringing visitors from far afield. Taunt photographed the fair from the late 1860s, hoping of course to sell many images, and also out of personal interest

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Plan of Waingate / markets area, Sheffield, 1901

Full title: Plan of Proposed New Street - Waingate to Blonk Street and Furnival Road; Widening of Exchange Street; Alteration of Banks of River Sheaf; and Acquisition of Lands for Markets.
Surveyor: Charles F Wike, City Surveyor.
Scale: 41.66 feet : 1 inch.
From an original at Sheffield Libraries: y10037

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