Images Dated 17th August 2004

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market

In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens, a squalid area of tenements and hovels and dust heaps. The cost of building the market was estimated at 200, 000. It was a philanthropic enterprise to make a clearance of the slum dwellings which clustered so thickly in the area but also to help the local people to have supplies of cheap fresh produce. Lack of support from wholesalers and small traders who preferred the open streets ensured its failure and it closed in 1885 and eventually became a bit of a white elephant and was demolished between 1958 and 1966"

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NA, Mexico, Taxco. Sta. Prisca and former Convento S. Bernadino in background

© Judith C. Haden / Danita Delimont, Agent

Architecture, Bell Tower, Cathedral, Church, Convent, Conventos Bernadino, Danita Delimont, Dome, Facade, House Of Worship, Judith Haden, Landmark, Mexico, North America, Prisca, Religion, Rf, Sainta Prisca, Taxco, Tower

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Cattle entering transport vehicle at cattle market, Mauriac, Cantal, Auvergne (Massif Central), France

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Auvergne Massif Central, Cant, Cantal, Cattle Entering Transport Vehicle At Cattle Market Mauriac