Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: Davis
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1945-07-18
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007376

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: London / Market; typed on label: BILLINGSGATE FISH MARKET HANDLES / RECORD CATCHES IN RACE AGAINST / WEATHER / Billingsgate fish market is / handling record deliveries of / fresh fish from the busy coastal / banks, but limited transport / is slowing up delivery of supplies / to London fishmongers, and there / is a possibility that hot weather / will cause some of the accumulated / tonnage to go bad in the market / unless the fish can be distributed / without delay. / PHOTO SHOWS:- On arriving at / Billingsgate market a load of / fish is immediately unloaded and / despatched [sic.] to waiting vans, which / take it to London fishmongers. / Davis Planet July 18 1945 PN; stamped: [star shape] / COPYRIGHT Credit: / PLANET NEWS LTD / 3, JOHNSON’S COURT / from BLACK STAR / LONDON, E.C.4. / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK / [illeg.]

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / MARKET BULLINGSGATE
Retouching: N