Now I don’t usually just lift someone else’s work directly off the page, but today I am breaking that rule.
And I am breaking it because the description of the Woolwich markets back in 1914, from The Woolwich Story is so good it deserves to appear just as E.F.E. Jefferson presented it.
The book is a wonderful account of all things Woolwich, while chapter XV, vividly recreates a walk through the market on the eve of the Great War.
The account runs across 19 pages and is fascinating, both because of its description of the market but also as an insight into how we lived just over a century and a bit ago.
Location; Woolwich in 1914
Pictures; Woolwich market in the early, 20th century, from Woolwich Through Time is at Woolwich, Kristina Bedford, 2014
*The Woolwich Story, E.F.E. Jefferson, 1970 pages 156-7
Fascinating piece, well worth a read, it is a brilliant insight into working class life in an age gone by but in a familiar setting. Really enjoyed it, thank you for reproducing it.
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