Photographer
A. A. GLEASON
London Downtown (Covent Garden Market in center)
DateBefore 1939
MediumPHOTOGRAPHY
Object number2004.020.019
Label TextMarket Square, Looking Northeast
Before 1939
Architect Samuel Peters’ 1853 Covent Garden Market building (middle) anchors London’s retail hub. The building is bordered on its left by Market Lane (today’s Covent Market Place), King Street to its right, and Talbot Street to its west. That cars outnumber people in this photograph is prophetic. From the 1950s, planners and developers reconfigured the city centre to accommodate the exponential growth in car ownership in the region.
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