Billingsgate Market 1851 A6860 Lord Nelson's Funeral: the procession

Lord Nelson's Funeral: the procession on the Thames pulling out from Greenwich Hospital on 8 January 1806

The monument on the right is the bronze equestrian statue of Charles I

painted in the 1740s

Mind the gap

Dighton presents us with a scene in Covent Garden during the election of 1788

Billingsgate Market 1851 A6860 Lord Nelson's Funeral: the processionBillingsgate Market, 1851. As late as 1840 Billingsgate consisted only of sheds, and the market seen here was designed in 1850 by J. B. Bunning, the City Architect, who also built the Coal Exchange. In 1850, the City Corporation instructed its architect, James Bunning, to replace the old dock and fish market at Billingsgate. The dock was filled in and a new building constructed overlooking the Thames. The new market opened in 1852, but the facilities