Photography — 1958
A Billingsgate Porter and his barrow
A porter wearing traditional flat-topped bobbin hat and overalls pulls his loaded barrow through the street outside Billingsgate Market in the early morning. He is moving fish from delivery vehicles to the merchants' stands on the trading floor, a task known as 'shoring in' in reference to the old practice of carrying fish ashore from boats once moored at Billingsgate Wharf. This is one of many photographs Bob Collins made there in 1958.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- IN27553.1
- Object name:
- A Billingsgate Porter and his barrow
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Collins, Bob
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- Production date:
- 1958
- Material:
cellulose acetate
- Measurements/duration:
- 6x6
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
Acton, Rudolph John
- Image credit:
© Estate of Bob Collins
- Creative commons usage:
- —
- License this image:
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