Video URL


13163_32204_london1
Subjects

1970s
Color

A street vendor selling his wares theatrically on Petticoat Lane in London. Another vendor selling ceramic/porcelain goods uses a mallet noisily to get customers’ attention. A man promoting a bag of goods he wishes to sell. A man carries a large placard through the crowd which reads ‘Flee from the wrath to come’. A mother and child pet puppies. The host looks at jewelry on sale. The host interviews one of London’s ‘Pearly Kings’. He wears a jacket and hat covered in thousands of pearl buttons. On the back of his jacket is a crest and the words ‘Pearly King of the City of London’. A view over the Petticoat Lane market.