#London Markets

[vintage-london-images]

Just an early sixties film montage of Londons wholesale fresh food markets that were operating in central city locations at that time. We see Covent Garden, Billingsgate and Smithfields. Only Smithfields still operates within the city, whilst Covent Garden and Billingsgate have moved to less central locations.

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[photosbyints]

Battersea Carboot Sale, May 2023

[allthingseurope]

City of London: Leadenhall Market (by David)

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[galina]

Sunday, at the flower market in east

[henk-heijmans]

An early arrival at Spitalfields Market, London, puts a youthful shoulder to the task of carrying a Christmas tree home, 1946 - by Monty Fresco (1919 - 1997), English

[webdiggerxxx]

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[colonellickburger]

Paul Trevor. Market Day. Brick Lane, London E1, 1977

[vangoghcore]

by lundonlens

[vintage-tigre]

Debbie Harry walking through Camden Market, London, 1978. Photographed by Chris Stein.

[ancientsstudies]

Leadenhall Market by _chacen.

[pondslime]

Jenny Agutter as Nurse Alex Price

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) dir. John Landis

[asleepinawell]

wake up babes, new reptile just dropped

[haxanbroker]

Leadenhall Market. London, December 2023.

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

have i mentioned that I'm Extraordinarily Bad at the bone market?

[neilfrancephoto]

London