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Billingsgate Fish Market

In 1850, the market according to Horace Jones, "consisted only of shed buildings ... The open space on the north of the well-remembered Billingsgate Dock was dotted with low booths and sheds, with a range of wooden houses with a piazza in front on the west, which served the salesmen and fishmongers as shelter, and for the purposes of carrying on their trade." In that year the market was rebuilt to a design by J.B. Bunning, the City architect.

James Bunstone Bunning

In 1834 he built a "receiving house" - a first-aid post for people rescued from the water - by the Serpentine in Hyde Park for the Royal Humane Society.

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