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London, Covent Garden Porters c.1880
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The flower market was no less frenetic. 'In spring time it is occupied by dealers in spring and bedding flowers and the pavement is aglow with colour of flower and leaf, and in the early summer hundreds of women and girls are busily occupied in shelling peas'.
An extract from London Photographic Memories.
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