Covent Garden Market, London 1989
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This 1989 view inside Covent Garden Market captures the piazza in its mature late-1980s form, with rows of red-framed stalls lining the covered arcade beneath the restored iron-and-glass roof. The displays are full of the kind of mixed goods that helped define the market in this period, including greetings cards, bags, clothing, dolls, records and small collectables, while the stream of shoppers gives the scene a busy but informal feel. Shopfronts in the background, including Casa Fina, add to the sense of Covent Garden as a place where permanent retailers and temporary market traders worked side by side. The mix of craft stalls, casual browsers and period fashion makes this a good record of the market after its reinvention, when the old vegetable market buildings had become one of central London’s best-known destinations for shopping and wandering.
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