Greenwich Market
Covered artisan market in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, trading since seventeen thirty-seven beneath glazed steel roofs.
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This guide to Greenwich Market in London starts beneath the baroque towers of Christopher Wren's Old Royal Naval College, tracing the market back to a 1700 royal charter granted to feed injured and retired sailors with meat, fish, butter, and eggs. It follows the market through its 1831 covered rebuild and the glazed steel roof added in 1902, then turns to its decline by the 1980s. Look up at the three elegant roof spans that still flood the courtyard with light.
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