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Photos from a walk around Bloomsbury, Covent Garden and Holborn, London Saturday 14th June 2008
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A walk around Covent Garden
A Saturday afternoon stroll around WC2
(Photos © urban75, Saturday 14th June 2008)


A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Neatly customised sign in Covent Garden Market.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
A taste of the old Covent Garden.

This display was advertising an exhibition by photographer Clive Boursnell documenting the last days of the old central London fruit, vegetable and flower markets.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Inside the exhibition.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
The fascinating and evocative photos cover a period of six years, from 1968 until the market's closure.

We got talking to an old bloke who worked at the market and he pointed out some of his old mates in the photos, ruefully adding, "Most of them are now dead."

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A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
The exhibition can be seen at No 1, The Piazza in Covent Garden until June 21 2008. It's well worth a visit.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Pearly King of Thornton Heath browsing a bookstore on Charing Cross Road.

The tradition of sewing buttons onto clothes was started by Henry Croft in 1875 as a means to draw attention to his charity fund raising efforts.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Milk float, Charing Cross Road.

A walk around Covent Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Flowers on hat, Cambridge Circus.



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A walk around Bloomsbury and Holborn Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
The endangered Astoria Theatre on Charing Cross Road - with Chesney Hawkes and Sonia!

A walk around Bloomsbury and Holborn Garden, Saturday 14th June 2008
Hen party on the move outside Centre Point.



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