{"id":283,"date":"2008-06-15T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-06-15T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T20:58:00","slug":"covent-garden-old-market-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/covent-garden-old-market-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Covent Garden old market photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/covent-garden-02.jpg\" alt=\"Covent Garden old market photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We popped in to see this exhibition by photographer Clive Boursnell documenting the last days of the old central London fruit, vegetable and flower markets at Covent Garden. It&#8217;s only on till June 21, so hurry!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/covent-garden-05.jpg\" alt=\"Covent Garden old market photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;Most of them are now dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/covent-garden-06.jpg\" alt=\"Covent Garden old market photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also took some photos while ambling around Bloomsbury and Holborn. Here&#8217;s a few:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/covent-garden-08.jpg\" alt=\"Bloomsbury and Holborn photos\" \/><br \/>Pearly King of Thornton Heath browsing a bookstore on Charing Cross Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/holborn-london-44.jpg\" alt=\"Bloomsbury and Holborn photos\" \/><br \/>Lovely Georgian terrace on Southampton Row.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/holborn-london-54.jpg\" alt=\"Bloomsbury and Holborn photos\" \/><br \/>We popped in The Enterprise pub, 38 Red Lion Street for a swifty. It&#8217;s a lovely traditional boozer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/bloomsbury-photos.html\">A walk around Bloomsbury and Holborn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We popped in to see this exhibition by photographer Clive Boursnell documenting the last days of the old central London fruit, vegetable and flower markets at Covent Garden. It&#8217;s only &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[142,141],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-stuff","tag-bloomsbury","tag-covent-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/covent-garden-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}