Spitalfields

See COVE Master Map entry: https://editions.covecollective.org/place/spitalfields

Phase 1

Watercress Girl. (Volume 1): "At Covent Garden only the finer sorts of cress are in demand, and, consequently, the itinerants buy only an eighth in that market, and they are not encouraged there. They purchase half the quantity in the Borough, and the same in Spitalfields, and a third at Portman."

Of the Street-Sellers of Rhubarb and Spice. (Volume 1): "Two of us live in Mary Axe, anoder live in, what dey call dat—Spitalfield, and de oder in Petticoat-lane. De one wat live in Spitalfield is old man, I dare say going for 70." 

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "But the change in Spitalfields is great. Since the prevalence of low wages the weaver’s garden has disappeared, and his pigeon-cote, even if its timbers have not rotted away, is no longer stocked with carriers, dragoons, horsemen, jacobins, monks, poulters, turtles, tumblers, fantails, and the many varieties of what is in itself a variety—the fancy-pigeon. A thrush, or a linnet, may still sing to the clatter of the loom, but that is all."

Phase 2

Of the Quantity of Shrubs, "Roots," Flowers, etc., sold in the Streets, and of the Buyers. (Volume 1)

OF THE WOMEN STREET-SELLERS. (Volume 1)

THE DOCK-LABOURERS. (Volume 3)

Of the Old Clothes Exchange. (Volume 2)