General Chat

Very interesting 8 minute film :-)

https://youtu.be/RKSayesj6i8

That bought back some memories to me Mr M as Dad had a friend who worked at Covent Garden and we used to go down and visit.

Time travel thankyou Mr Magoo

The veg market has moved to Nine Elms on the site of the old SR rail depot. There is also the thriving Borough Market at London Bridge, centre of a lot of night life (pre covid)
Billingsgate & Sammy the Seal are still open for business though it is well down on 1960. I have one of the hats, v well worn, inherited from an ancestor who worked there.

After a thousand years on the same site Smithfield is still very much in business though far more hygenic! Pre railways the cattle and sheep were driven down from as far away as the east Midlands via Kings Cross.

It is no longer possible either in London or Paris to eat and drink in the wee small hours at the veg. market mores the pity, Borough Market being the exception.

Whether the London food markets survive brexit is very much dependent on what sort of food regime the Tories decide upon next year. If they decide, in an increasingly uncertain world, to keep the supply chains short then all will be well. OTOH they may choose to import far more food, even most of it, from tens of thousands of miles away.

Because I was on British History Online, loading up with contraband anyway, I had a look at the London Piepowder Court records and there are loads, way on back to the thirteenth century, maybe earlier.

So, I am being led off on a different path, yet again!

Lovely film, Mr M <3

The LSA lorries used to go up to Covent Garden from here every night.

Sometimes, the children whose dads were lorry driver would go with them. They always came back really impressed by the swearing!