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Shop Signs / UmbrellaThis umbrella sign advertises an umbrella makers in Reading, Berkshire
Smithfield Market 1939A fine view of the exterior of Smithfield Market, City of London, on a summers day, only two months before the outbreak of World War Two
Chemist Shop C19ThA reconstruction of an old chemist shop in the Black Country Museum
Coin of Edward & HaroldCoins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II
Cherries in Paris StreetA smart woman buys cherries for herself and her children from a Parisien street trader
Selling Fish by DocksThe fish-market alongside the quays where the fishing-boats dock - housewives and cooks come to buy fish fresh from the sea
Bakers Shop / LoavesA scene in a bakery, with the preparation and baking of standard size loaves of white bread
BOX SELLERBand Boxes. A box seller passes Benjamin Tabarts Juvenile Library on Bond Street, London. Tabart was an early seller of fairy tales & nursery stories for children
MILK BELOWIn Londons Cavendish Square the milk-woman cries Milk below ! to the servants in the basements of the houses
Boy Apprentices, 1 of 3Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 1 of 3 pictures
Workers - May Day 1936Workers organisations May Day celebrations in Hyde Park - London
East India Co. MeetingA meeting of the Dutch East India Company
Paris Ecaillere 18CA Frenchman treats himself to an oyster on the streets of Paris while the ecaillere watches to see whether he approves it
Carraways Grocery store, London - especially popular at Christmas time
Selling Persian CarpetsSelling Persian carpets in Le Printemps, French department store
Butcher & Customer 1867B - for the butcher who had a great dog
Little Girl on the phone at a Trade ShowA little girl on the telephone seated on the desk of a stand at a Trade Show. The Midlands Gas Board stand can be seen in the background. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd
Spitalfields Market / 1841Spitalfields Market
New Orleans / Birds EyeA bird s-eye view of the Mississippi snaking its way through the town of New Orleans, a town of ships and trade
Billingsgate Market 1598Billingsgate fish market
Royal Mint FacadeThe facade of the Royal Mint
Debtor Served with WritA debtor is served with a writ
Shopping for Fabric 1809A throng of mostly feminine customers scrutinize the stock at Messrs. Harding, Howell & Co. at 89 Pall Mall. Fabrics cascade from displays in the drapery department
Covent Garden Mkt / FlowerCOVENT GARDEN The flower stalls at the market
Brewer Street Market, Soho
Covent Garden PostcardCovent Garden on a busy day - the entire space is taken up with stalls of fruit, vegetables and flowers
Covent Garden / MarkinoCovent Garden at 4 am : fruit and vegetables arrive from the country in the early hours of the morning
Petticoat Lane, 1856Petticoat Lane market on Sunday morning - a policeman casts a cold eye on the street traders, some of whom may not be wholly law-abiding citizens
Successful Money LenderA successful money lender caresses his bulging money bags. Coins lie scattered across the table. A freshly drawn up loan contract is at his elbow
Covent Garden / CratesFresh fruit arrives on a Spring morning at Covent Garden market. A man carries a crate of oranges on his head
Ice Cream Seller & DogA sudden spell of hot weather brings ice cream vendors many customers, including this dog who insists on being served along with his small owner
Girl Match SellerA young girl sells matches in the street
Hudson Ships Sail 1845Ships of the Hudsons Bay Company sail from Gravesend, England
Marshall & Shelgrove, Oxford Street, London
Debenham & Freebody 1905Debenham & Freebody department store, Wigmore Street, London
SHOE-BLACK 1877A Shoe-Black boy cleans and shines a gentlemans shoes on a wooden block
Mays Stores / Shepherd MktShepherd Market, Mayfair, previously the site of the May Fair from which the district takes its name. It was laid out in c.1735 by architect Edward Shepherd
A London CostermongerA London costermonger with a fully laden cartload of vegetables
FOULIS GAS FIRE / 1889Foulis Patent Regenerative Gas fire, supplied by the Carron Company. Universally admitted to be the most efficient gas fires by the trade both at home and abroad
Borough Market 1853Christmas eve in the market
Petticoat Lane 1930SA busy day on Middlesex Street, part of the famous Petticoat Lane market, east London
Stocks Market / LondonStocks market, London
Poulterer - FishmongerA fine pre-Christmas display by a poulterer / fishmonger of Basingstoke, Hampshire : mostly of poultry, but also a royal sturgeon and advertising for T Walls Sausages
London / Cries / WatercressThe watercress seller
SPINDRIFTBritish clipper for the China tea trade, which in 1868 won the ocean race from China to England
January Sales 1980SPeople queueing outside Hamleys toy shop and the sportswear shop next door, during the January sales, central London
Pyne - Coal HeaversCOAL HEAVERS An essential trade when almost every house is heated with coal, the heaver shovels coals into sacks for delivery door to door
Tariff Reform NeededHow can the poor British agriculturist compete with foreign produce - German and American shops - the Chicago Meat Trust ? The answer is TARIFF REFORM, of course !
