Billingsgate Fish Market is located in Poplar in London. It is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east corner of the City of London, where the riverside market was originally established. In its original location in the 19th century, Billingsgate was the largest fish market in the world.
Billingsgate Market in 2010
The original open air Billingsgate Fish Market in the early 19th century. Boats delivered fish to this small inlet of the Thames and business was conducted on the quayside.
Colour photo of Billingsgate Market, about 1908
A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type of wet market, often sell street food as well.
A fish stall in HAL market, Bangalore
Fish department in H Mart store in Fairfax, Virginia with mackerel, bluefish, porgy, whiting and many other fish
The Great Fish Market, painted by Jan Brueghel the Elder
Selling fish in a Quebec Market, c. 1845.