Old Covent Garden
Subtitle: the fruit, vegetable and flower markets
By: Clive Boursnell ; introduction by Peter Ackroyd
Contributors: Ackroyd, Peter
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: F - Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780711233317
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Pictorial works; Produce trade; Markets; Photography; History; Portrait photography; Covent Garden Market (Westminster, London, England)
Description: "In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell shot thousands of colour and black and white photographs of the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower markets, documenting the end of an era before the markets moved out of their site in the heart of London. The book contains almost three hundred of those images, portraits of the people working in and using the markets, as well as of the streets and buildings of Covent Garden. It also includes interviews with the people who knew the market best - the porters, stallholders, flower sellers, producers, farmers and nurserymen"--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London : Frances Lincoln, 2008, under title: Covent Garden : the fruit, vegetable and flower markets. 9780711228603 0711228604