Roasted Chestnut Seller, Trafalgar Square 1980s
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This 1980s photograph captures a roasted chestnut seller at work in Trafalgar Square, with his brazier full of dark, split chestnuts and a row of ready-filled paper bags set out for customers. The hand-painted price of 30p on the cart fixes the scene neatly in its period, while the blurred background of the square and the National Gallery beyond gives the image a strong sense of central London street life. Chestnut sellers were once a familiar winter sight in the capital, and this image preserves that old seasonal trade in an everyday, unvarnished way. It is a particularly evocative record of a small London street tradition, when something as simple as a paper bag of hot chestnuts was still part of the atmosphere around Trafalgar Square.
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