Columbia Road Flower Market, Bethnal Green 1985
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This 1985 view of Columbia Road Flower Market captures the street at full stretch, with plant and flower stalls packed tightly in the foreground and a dense crowd of shoppers pressing in to browse. The shopfronts behind add plenty of local detail, including Head of Hair, Lee’s Sea Foods, a fish bar and a wood turner’s premises, showing how the flower market still sat within an ordinary working street of small East End businesses rather than a tidied-up heritage setting. Potted geraniums, hanging plants, boxed flowers and handwritten price cards spill across the trestle tables, while the mix of coats, jackets and carriers gives the scene a strong everyday feel. It is a lively record of Columbia Road before later gentrification softened some of its rougher edges, when the market still felt crowded, local and slightly chaotic in the best possible way.
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