Brill
The Brill was a 19th century market. It was located in Brill Place, Somers Town, in the modern borough of Camden (London, England), at the site of what is now the British Library and King's Cross railway station. The Brill market is described in London Labour in the article titled "The Sunday Morning Markets."
In London Labour and the London Poor edition:
Phase 1
The Sunday Morning Markets. (Volume 1): "As you enter the Brill the market sounds are scarcely heard. But at each step the low hum grows gradually into the noisy shouting, until at last the different cries become distinct, and the hubbub, din, and confusion of a thousand voices bellowing at once again fill the air. The road and footpath are crowded, as on the over-night; the men are standing in groups, smoking and talking; whilst the women runto and fro, some with the white round turnips showing out of their filled aprons, others with cabbages under their arms, and a piece of red meat dangling from their hands. Only a few of the shops are closed, but the butcher’s and the coal-shed are filled with customers, and from the door of the shut-up baker’s, the women come streaming forth with bags of flour in their hands, while men sally from the halfpenny barber’s smoothing their clean-shaved chins."
Phase 2
Of the Number of Street Stalls. (Volume 1)
The Rat-Killer. (Volume 3) [as “brill-place”]
OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1) [as “brill-row”]
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Coordinates
Longitude: -0.124605700000