MIT Press Media: London and how it emerged through trade in fish, which should give people hope. If you can find a product that people want to buy then you can thrive. Quote: 1840’s – For all low-priced fish the poor are the costermongers’ best customers, and a fish diet seems becoming almost as common among the ill paid classes of London, as is a potato diet among the peasants of Ireland. Comment: yet Ireland this was the time of the Famine when 1 million+ died from starvation and 1.5+ million emigrated to whatever country would take them
How Fish Markets Transformed London’s Architectural Identity London’s bustling fish trade left an indelible mark on the city’s built environment.
Who Watches the Watchers? 