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1. The window into the port
*The window into the port
2. Opening of the oyster market at Billingsgate.
*Opening of the oyster market at Billingsgate. An 'Illustrated London News' engraving from August 1843, depicting the opening of the oyster market at Billingsgate. A fish market had existed here...
3. Billingsgate Fish Market.
*Billingsgate Fish Market. For many centuries Billingsgate wharf was the main mooring for fishing vessels, and a fish market soon developed here. As well as fish, corn, salt...
4. A Thames barge drifting off Wapping, c. 1884.
*A Thames barge drifting off Wapping, c. 1884. A Thames barge apparently drifting in rough water near Wapping, c. 1884. Behind the barge are the buildings of St John's Wharf. To the right is the...
5. A meeting outside the West India Dock gates.
*A meeting outside the West India Dock gates. This was a monster gathering of striking dock workers in the last few days of the 1889 strike. Just over a week later, they returned to work having...
 
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