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Robert Horner

Robert Horner

Person  Male 

Categories: Commerce, Property

Last private owner of Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. Came from Essex, worked in the market and managed to buy the lease in 1875. Forced to sell to the City of London in 1920.

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Robert Horner

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Spitalfields Market - Horner - finished

Odd use of English, using the passive to force the subject to be the market r...

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Spitalfields Market - Horner - started

The date is almost lost in the foliage, bottom right.

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