Borough market 1872 HG2436/51 Tuesday 8 May 1945 was

Tuesday 8 May 1945 was 'Victory in Europe' (VE) Day

Plucked birds hang from a rail while others lie on top of a crate

An image of how a print would look if printed from the Moorfields section of The Copperplate Map which dates from the 1550’s and is the first known map of London

Parliament Street

The Victorian (street) fish seller

Borough market 1872 HG2436/51 Tuesday 8 May 1945 wasAn illustration of Borough market from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. The first formal mention of this fruit and vegetable market, which operated at the southern end of London Bridge, was in 1276 when its location moved to the High Street. The volume of traffic meant that the market again moved, in 1756, to an area of land known as Rochester Yard. The market building illustrated was designed by Henry Rose in 1851,