Columbia Market, Bethnal-Green [in London], built by Miss Burdett-Coutts, opened on Wednesday, 1869. Market and '...set of model dwellings for working-class beneficent objects Miss Coutts has in to supply the surrounding poor with wholesome food at a fair rate; to bring the producer and consumer into closer communication with each other; and to promote habits of industry and thrift among the humblest class of shops shall be occupied by farmers or their agents, who will be their own salesmen, and thus free their customers from the penalties inflicted by t
Columbia Market, Bethnal-Green [in London], built by Miss Burdett-Coutts, opened on Wednesday, 1869. Market and '...set of model dwellings for working-class beneficent objects Miss Coutts has in to supply the surrounding poor with wholesome food at a fair rate; to bring the producer and consumer into closer communication with each other; and to promote habits of industry and thrift among the humblest class of shops shall be occupied by farmers or their agents, who will be their own salesmen, and thus free their customers from the penalties inflicted by their dealing with the parlour, kitchen, scullery, store, closets, and four third or topmost story is carried up as a tower and contains large filtering-cisterns, which supply all the buildings with floor of the hall has an area of 2600 superficial [There are] small shops, lined with Irish marble, for the sale of meat, fish, and poultry; above are galleries for the sale of flowers and fruit. The buildings are substantially constructed of yellow brick, with Portland-stone cornices and H. A. Darbishire is the architect, and Messrs. W. Cubitt and Co. are the builders'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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