Two men in conversation outside Billingsgate Fish Market 1958 Avery Illustrations Eccleston Square in the North

Eccleston Square in the North East

At the bar there are two other women

A man is balancing on the backs of three horses and the ring master is dressed as a clown

Publisher: Picador

The wooden partitions between tables are typical of the London chop-house of the period - such establishments were common in the City and along Fleet Street and the Strand until late Victorian times

Two men in conversation outside Billingsgate Fish Market 1958 Avery Illustrations Eccleston Square in the NorthThis image shows two fish porters in conversation outside Billingsgate Fish Market, Lower Thames Street, 1958. One man is carrying three boxes on top of his traditional flat topped bobbin hat.