Old Billingsgate Market

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Billingsgate Fish Market in 1876.
Billingsgate Fish Market in 1876.

The Victorian incarnation of Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London is now used as a hospitality and events venue under the name Old Billingsgate Market.

In 1850, the first Billingsgate Market building was constructed on Lower Thames Street by the builder John Jay, and the fish market was moved off the streets into its new riverside building. This was demolished c.1873 and replaced by an arcaded market hall (designed by City architect Sir Horace Jones) and built by John Mowlem & Co. in 1875, the building that still stands in Lower Thames Street today[1].

In 1982, the fish market was relocated to a new building close to Canary Wharf in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, east London. The 1875 building was then refurbished (by architect Lord Rogers)(originally) to provide office accommodation.

[edit] Gallery

Thames facing (south) view of the market

Weathervane detail

Door detail

[edit] References

  1. ^ History of Billingsgate accessed 21 May 2007

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