Title: The British market hall
First published: 1999
Description: The story of Britain's market halls - built to replace traditional open-air markets throughout England, Wales, and Scotland - is a tale of exuberant architecture, civic pride, and attempts at social engineering. This book is the first history of the market hall, an immensely important building type that revolutionized the way Britons obtained their consumer goods.

James Schmiechen and Kenneth Carls investigate the economic, cultural, political, and social forces that led to the construction of several hundred market buildings in the two centuries after 1750.
Subjects: Public spaces, Food supply, Commercial buildings, Markets, City and town life, History, Cities and towns, great britain
Places: England
LC classification: HF5474.G7 S36 1999