2-699-179 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Wedding in the Fleet', c1740s, (c1872). Wedding taking place in the Fleet Market, Farringdon Street, London. The River Fleet was covered over in 1736 and Fleet Market was set up to the west of the Smithfield livestock market. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]