A Chapel Street Market eel stall 1955 Frame:gold many of these porters would

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the book brings together an extraordinary cast of voices

Watercolour depicting an interior of archetypal public house in late Victorian London

Gladys Roberts and Edith New

A Chapel Street Market eel stall 1955 Frame:gold many of these porters wouldA Chapel Street Market eel stall. At the eel stall at Chapel Street Market, which operated seven days a week close to Angel Tube station, live eels writhed in large tubs of water. People bought the eels to cook at home, once the stall trader had dispatched them with a knife. There were two businesses on Chapel Street, both in the name of Manze, selling hot stewed eels.