Covent Garden Market, London 1989
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This 1989 view inside Covent Garden Market captures one of the covered arcade stalls in full late-1980s style, with racks of brightly coloured knitwear hanging beneath the restored iron-and-glass roof. The display is full of patterned jumpers and cardigans with handwritten price tags, while a trader sits reading a newspaper beside the stall as shoppers browse along the aisle. The red stall frames, globe lamps and blue-painted ironwork all help place the scene firmly in Covent Garden’s revived market setting, where craft, clothing and gift stalls had become a major part of the area’s new identity. It is a strong record of the market in its mature post-redevelopment phase, when browsing for distinctive clothes and handmade goods had become as central to the Covent Garden experience as the architecture itself.
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