Columbia Road Flower Market

This guide to Columbia Road Flower Market in London opens with Angela Burdett-Coutts, one of the richest women in England, and the grand Gothic covered market she built here in eighteen sixty-nine to lift a notorious slum out of poverty. You'll hear why the East End traders refused to use her halls, what Charles Dickens had to do with the project, and how a parliamentary act tied to the Sabbath of the neighborhood's Jewish traders reshaped the street's Sunday trading. Listen for how little of Burdett-Coutts's original building the street around you still remembers.