[HN Gopher] The Markets of Old London (2024)
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       The Markets of Old London (2024)
        
       Author : zeristor
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2026-02-09 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spitalfieldslife.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spitalfieldslife.com)
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | (2024)
        
         | tasuki wrote:
         | Most of the pictures are even older than that.
        
       | vhalan wrote:
       | Billingsgate is amazing love getting fish there
        
       | sorokod wrote:
       | Ridley Road Market is not mentioned but worth a visit
        
       | Lio wrote:
       | I love these old pictures of London. You can feel the life.
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       | At the time London was the largest city in the world at the
       | centre of the large emprie of all time.
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       | No wonder Dracula was making a beeline for it.
        
       | dist-epoch wrote:
       | Beautiful images of Capitalism building itself.
        
         | GuinansEyebrows wrote:
         | what does that even mean?
        
       | sfvisser wrote:
       | I sometimes wonder if city life used to be more bustling, or if
       | photographers just avoided taking pictures of places without many
       | people.
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       | The past feels so alive!
        
         | NoboruWataya wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | fundatus wrote:
         | Much fewer / slower cars. Nowadays people have been pushed
         | aside to make room for cars.
        
       | bloomingeek wrote:
       | Great picture! Those crowded streets were no doubt a pickpockets
       | dream.
        
       | kilroy123 wrote:
       | I live in Spitalfields. I'm sometimes in awe of all the history
       | here.
        
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