A View of the New Hungerford Market, Westminster, London mb-height 5064 '4 Pair for a Shilling

'4 Pair for a Shilling Holland Socks'

The man is wearing a frock coat and cravat

'Marriage a la mode'

text in an ornate border including putti in the sky

A View of the New Hungerford Market, Westminster, London mb-height 5064 '4 Pair for a Shilling'A View of the New Hungerford Market', Westminster, London, 1833. The new Hungerford Market near Charing Cross was built in Italianate style in 1831 1833. The architect was Charles Fowler, who also designed Covent Garden Market. The market was badly damaged when the adjacent Hungerford Hall burned down in 1854, and in 1862 the site was sold to the South Eastern Railway and Charing Cross Station was built on it.