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The Markets of Old London (2024)

ickets are available for my walking tour this Saturday! Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS Clare Market c.1900 I never knew there was a picture of the legendary and long-vanished Clare Market – where Joseph Grimaldi was born – until I came upon this old glass slide among many thousands in the collection of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, housed at the Bishopsgate Institute. Scrutinising this picture, the market does not feel remote at all, as if I could take a stroll over there to Holborn in person as easily as I can browse the details of the photograph.

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