The "Parliament of Petticoat Lane"

copyright Jim Linwood http://www.flickr.com/photos/brighton/4765031492/

Dilapidated public toilets in Leyden Street - where arguing Jewish Petticoat Lane market traders once put the world to rights, now quiet.

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London in 1927, in colour

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

What has changed and what hasn't? Petticoat Lane Market is still crowded, but now black African faces and East Asians also frequent it. Particularly Africans from all over London, for whom the market has some atmosphere that reminds them of West Africa in particular

http://www.flickr.com/photos/regimepix/8175921108/  photo by David G Mills

But the film also shows the Pool of London, that part of the Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, busy with commercial traffic and barges. Alas, it is all gone and converted warehouses are now multi-million pound flats....

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4227840 Photo by Morganshi