Columbia market 1872 Size:large the West End and the

the West End and the City

The work was back-breakingly hard

Hydraulic crane working on barrels and steel drums

David Hepher produced a series of paintings which focused on the theme of tower blocks

Columbia market 1872 Size:large the West End and theAn illustration of Columbia market from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Columbia Market in Bethnal Green was built by the philanthropist, Angela Burdett Coutts. Jerrold writes that it was intended to 'bring cheap and good food within the reach of those who could least afford to be cheated of a farthing's worth. And so in 1868, under liberal regulations unknown in the old markets, the spacious avenues of a fine