Berwick Street Market, London

A street full of noise, colour and the smell of fresh produce — this is Berwick Street Market, Soho, captured in the 1960s before decimalisation changed the currency and, slowly, the character of the city itself.

One of London's oldest markets, trading on this narrow Soho street since the late 18th century, Berwick Street was in the 1960s still a working market serving a working neighbourhood. The stalls piled high with fruit and vegetables, the Arospel scales, the British Banana Co. crates, the bare bulbs swinging overhead — every detail in these photographs is a document of a London that has vastly changed.

This was also a street of cultural significance far beyond its vegetable stalls. Elizabeth David had shopped here for olive oil in the 1950s when it could barely be found elsewhere in England. A young Marc Bolan sold fruit and veg from his mother's stall here in these very years. A generation later, Berwick Street would provide the backdrop for the cover of Oasis's Morning Glory. But in these photographs, all of that is still to come — this is simply the street as it was, alive and unself-conscious, caught by a photographer who understood that the ordinary is worth preserving.

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