Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1945-11
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007434

Inscriptions:
[star] Credit: / from BLACK STARCOPYRIGHT / PLANET NEWS LTD / 8 JOHNSON'S COURT / LONDON EC4 [Illeg.]"PETTICOAT LANE" - LONDON'S SUNDAY MORNING MARKET. / Acolourful survival from London of 200 years ago is to be found in / Petticoat Lane Market, held every Sunday morning in Middlesex Street / down in Whitechapel, and the alleys running out of it. All the / wares that were cried in the London street markets hundres of years / ago are still to be found in Petticoat Lane - or their modern / equivalents. All the tricksters and conjurors and "strong i' th arm" / men that have delighted the onlookers at town and country fairs for / centuries have their 'counterparts today in London's Sunday morning / market / PHOTO SHOWS :- An admiring audience of youngsters watch / an escapologist who baffles them with his science, at Petticoat Lane / Market, in Middlesex St, London / November 1945 PN / (No14 For full story see No 1.)

Tagasauris Keywords: Audience; Child and adult; Crowd; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Public humiliation; Textile; Torture
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON / MARKET PETTY COAT LANE
Retouching: N