Columbia market 1872 Colnaghi and Company Donna Reed

Donna Reed

The section covers the area between Bird Street in the North West

Austin Reed

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killing 73 people and damaging up to 70

Columbia market 1872 Colnaghi and Company Donna ReedAn illustration of Columbia market from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Columbia Market in Bethnal Green was built by the philanthropist, Angela Burdett Coutts. Jerrold writes that it was intended to 'bring cheap and good food within the reach of those who could least afford to be cheated of a farthing's worth. And so in 1868, under liberal regulations unknown in the old markets, the spacious avenues of a fine