Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
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THE MARKETS OF THE METROPOLIS.
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licensed and unlicensed, are employed here,
and it is roughly estimated that, not reckon-
ing the costers or the flower-girls who come
here in the morning for their day’s supplies,
the number of persons employed at Covent
Garden does not fall short of five thousand.
The great fruit and vegetable emporium
for the Surrey side is the Borough Market,
of which the revenue is appropriated to
public purposes. The Spitalfields Market
(for fruit and vegetables) resembles Covent
Garden in being in private ownership and
in having been chartered in the days of
Charles II. Mention must also be made
of the Shadwell Fish Market, belonging to
the London Riverside Fish Market Com-
pany, of the Hide and Skin Market at
Bermondsey, and of the railway markets,
such as the Great Northern Potato Market
at York Road, King’s Cross, and the Great
Eastern Vegetable Market at Stratford. At
the latter of these some seventy thousand
tons of vegetables, etc., are disposed of
during the year, and the handling of this
produce finds work for some three hundred
men- 117 117 TT
W. W. Hutchings.
L/lolo; Cassell Hr Co., Lia.
COVENT GARDEN MARKET.