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Sound-worlds of old Billingsgate

A contribution to the Marine Lives Thames soundscape project in the form of a new site section. Here, historical resources are compiled to address how the old Billingsgate fish market might have sounded, and how people in the past thought it sounded.

Views from street and river, 1736–1821

Billingsgate in 1736 viewed from Thames Street
The Legal Quays in 1757 viewed, possibly, from Smart's Quay
Billingsgate in 1808 viewed from Thames Street
Billingsgate in 1820 viewed from the Thames
Billingsgate market in 1821

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MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Views from street and river, 1736–1821

Maps and distant views, 1561-1827

LITERATURE

Thomas Miller, Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present, 1849

City of London, Whereas the fish-market at Billingsgate, 1670

Billingsgate in the newspapers, 1716–49

Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1851

W. S. Gilbert, London Characters and the Humorous Side of London Life, 1870

The Case of the Free Fishmongers in and about the City of London, 1699

The Case of the Poor Fishermen using Billingsgate Market, 1699

Charles Dickens, Dickens's dictionary of the Thames, 1885

The London Fishery laid open, 1759

Walter Thornbury, Old and New London, 1878

Ned Ward, The London Spy, Part II, 1699

Ned Ward, The London Spy, Part III, 1699

George Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 1859

John Badcock, Real Life in London, 1821