Whitechapel and Watney Markets

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As well as fruit and veg, Whitechapel Market offered homewares, clothes shops, and records at the ‘Wally for Wireless’ store next to the station

Watney Street (later Market) was one of the first handful of Sainsbury’s grocery stores, opened in 1881.

Watney Market depicted in a turn-of-the-century postcard

Vegetables at Watney Market