Sujet

Oxford Market, c1880. Creator: Henry Dixon & Son.

Légende

Oxford Market, c1880. Covered market in London. '"Oxford Market was built about 1724, but not opened till 1732 (Allen's London, iii., 25). In Strype's Stow (1754) it is said to be "not much resorted to at present", a condition in which it seems to have remained till its demolition in 1880. Dr Johnson at one time lived at No. 6 in this same street, then on the verge of London towards the north.' Description by Alfred Marks. Although open markets were once considered indispensable to the poor and to traders who could not afford large rents, by the latter part of the nineteenth century a notable number had closed. Most disappeared through the pressure of re-development though this had been noted as early as 1869 by a Guildhall committee. Oxford Market, situated to the north of Oxford Street, on the west side of Great Titchfield Street (the photograph shows the Market House from the corner of Castle Street), was, according to Marks, demolished shortly after the photograph was taken. A block of flats was built on the site.

Date

1880

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A45_267

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

55.6Mo (7.5Mo) / 42.0cm x 33.2cm / 4960 x 3919 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England architecture market society trade British photography Westminster century Britain cobbled cobbles concept shopping arcade B&W cobblestone demolition demolished demolishing cobblestones Historic building 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century City of Westminster TGN outside photograph Oxford Market Henry Alfred Dixon Marks Henry Dixon & Son Dixon Henry & Son carbon print 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Henry Dixon Alfred Marks