London’s markets 100 years ago

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The Clare Market slum, as it became known, was swept away in 1905 to create Kingsway and Aldwych.The Gentle Author pieces together photographs from the archives of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society – from Billingsgate and Covent Garden, to Clare and the Hay Market.

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