Billingsgate Market 1851 A6860 Joan and Daisy

Joan and Daisy

Dighton presents us with a scene in Covent Garden during the election of 1788

Lord Nelson's Funeral: the procession on the Thames pulling out from Greenwich Hospital on 8 January 1806

painted in the 1740s

too female

Billingsgate Market 1851 A6860 Joan and DaisyBillingsgate Market, 1851. As late as 1840 Billingsgate consisted only of sheds, and the market seen here was designed in 1850 by J. B. Bunning, the City Architect, who also built the Coal Exchange. In 1850, the City Corporation instructed its architect, James Bunning, to replace the old dock and fish market at Billingsgate. The dock was filled in and a new building constructed overlooking the Thames. The new market opened in 1852, but the facilities