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    Billingsgate Fish Market is located in Poplar in London. It is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a...
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    fish markets in the world :Billingsgate-Yenikapı. ISBN 978-605-4579-83-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fish markets. A film clip of a fish market...
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    that was originally Billingsgate Fish Market, the world's largest fish market in the 19th century. The first Billingsgate Market building was constructed...
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    west side, whilst on the main quay, an open market soon developed, called "Roomland". Billingsgate Fish Market was formally established by an Act of Parliament...
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    the early 1990s. This followed the move of Covent Garden Market and Billingsgate Fish Market out of the city centre. The new, purpose-built location in...
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    Bloater (herring) (category Fish processing)
    Yarmouth capon, two-eyed steak, or Billingsgate pheasant (after the Billingsgate Fish Market in London). The bloater is associated with England, while kippers...
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    Marketplace (redirect from Market place)
    (interior), 2006 Billingsgate Fish Market, circa 1808 Billingsgate Fish Market, interior, 1876 Rag Fair (now Petticoat Lane Market) by Thomas Rowlandson...
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    Corporation's main decision-making body, that Billingsgate Fish Market, New Spitalfields Market, and Smithfield Market would move to a new consolidated site in...
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    known by his nicknames Danny Barnett and Joe, was a fish porter who worked at Billingsgate Market in the 19th century, located in the East End of London...
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    and 2011). Jason's father, Arthur Robert White, was a porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, and his mother, Olwen Jones, was from Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan...
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    qualifications. Through his father, he got his first job as a fish porter at Billingsgate Fish Market. In 1981, he spent the summer on Fire Island, New York...
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    to the market; but competition from Billingsgate Fish Market meant that it was never built, and traders preferred selling outdoors. The market closed...
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    found an abundance of fish in Wellfleet Harbor. They named the area around the harbor Billingsgate after the Billingsgate Fish Market in London. At that...
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    and Hampstead Heath. The Corporation owns Old Spitalfields Market and Billingsgate Fish Market, in the neighbouring London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It...
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  • Tovey lived in Bow. His father, Frank Tovey, Sr. was a porter in Billingsgate Fish Market. At school, Francis tried to learn many different musical instruments...
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    British Sea Fishing. 12 October 2012. "Razor Clams on display in Billingsgate Fish Market, London". Alamy. Joaquim, Sandra; Matias, Domitília; Matias, Ana...
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    particularly from the Dutch fishing boats landing catches at Billingsgate Fish Market.[citation needed] During World War II, government food rationing...
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    and another sitcom, Down the 'Gate (1975–76), which was set in Billingsgate Fish Market. However neither series replicated his success with On the Buses...
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    Michelle was born in Chigwell, Essex. Her father Joseph was a fish trader at Billingsgate Fish Market and her mother Shirley an actress. One of her sisters is...
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    the architect of Billingsgate and Smithfield Markets), make Leadenhall Market a tourist attraction. The main entrance to the market is on Gracechurch...
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    1850s, they were sending as many as 80 million oysters a year to Billingsgate fish market. By then the plentiful oyster had become the food of the poor....
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  • Creek. There is also a tunnel between Cottons centre and the old Billingsgate Fish Market near to London Bridge. Citibank used it for cabling at one point;...
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  • West Hatch Technical High School. Her father Joseph was a fish trader at Billingsgate Fish Market and her mother Shirley an actress. One of her sisters is...
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    of Food and Agriculture, at Smithfield meat market, the largest UK meat market, and Billingsgate Fish Market, and at an abattoir in Farnborough, Hampshire...
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    to provide wholesale markets through legislation enacted in the Victorian era. It proposes to relocate Billingsgate Fish Market (currently in Poplar)...
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  • company while at school. In November 2010, Discipline was working on Billingsgate Fish Market when he was informed by his agent of an audition for the part of...
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    Fishwife (redirect from Fish fag)
    wif (woman). London's traditional fish market was frequented by such types who were known as "the wives of Billingsgate". "They dressed in strong 'stuff'...
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    direct to London and the Billingsgate Fish Market allowed fresh "Grimsby fish" to gain nationwide renown. The first true fish dock opened in Grimsby in...
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