Covent Garden Market History. There has been some kind of market in covent garden since the 1600’s but the current market was built in the 1830’s to a neoclassical design by architect charles fowler. The market grew and further buildings were added:
In 1838, the critic jc loudon wrote that fowler was “one of the few modern architects who belong to the school of reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and. Covent garden is, as all the world knows, a, the chief fruit, vegetable, and flower market in london. In 1955, a time when the invention of the automobile had become a big hit in london and other cities, the covent garden market building inc.
Until the end of world war 1, this market served as the cultural and business hub of the city.
Petitioned for a government bill “for the improvement and regulation of covent garden market”. The wholesale produce has now moved to new covent garden market in south london and the original site has been transformed beyond all recognition offering an variety of stalls from hand made jewellery to posh chocolates. Covent garden dates back to medieval days when the abbey of westminster owned the 'convent garden' from which surplus produce was sold to londoners. At this time it was not known as a square but as an area of cultivation but, later, the change of hands gave this area to the counts of bedford and this is how they began the works that made it the.