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The Markets of Old London (2024)

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

11 minutes agokilroy123

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!

an hour agosfvisser

Much fewer / slower cars. Nowadays people have been pushed aside to make room for cars.

34 minutes agofundatus

Most of the popular London markets are very alive these days. You can barely move in them some days. So I think it is the latter.

an hour agoNoboruWataya

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.

2 hours agoLio

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

an hour agobloomingeek

Ridley Road Market is not mentioned but worth a visit

3 hours agosorokod

Billingsgate is amazing love getting fish there

3 hours agovhalan

Beautiful images of Capitalism building itself.

2 hours agodist-epoch

what does that even mean?

an hour agoGuinansEyebrows

(2024)

4 hours agognabgib

Most of the pictures are even older than that.

2 hours agotasuki
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