{"id":153,"date":"2019-11-12T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/archives-alive\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:42:32","slug":"9-oxford-street-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/9-oxford-street-market\/","title":{"rendered":"9. Oxford Street Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"audio-style\">\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-9.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-9.mp3\">https:\/\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Daily-Shop-in-the-Past-9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Street sellers included barrow boys, costermongers and street traders, who were itinerants, without capital, a fixed shop or regular customers.The barrow boys were extremely mobile, both geographically and socially.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harding recalls his beginnings:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I first started in Oxford Street with my father after I left school. He was a navy man really, you see. He was called up. Before the war he worked in a fried fish shop: he used to muck about doing a bit of fishing. He used to clean fish.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We were living in Claremont Row, in Sussex Street, until we got a little better off. Dad came out the navy and started up on his own in the market, in Oxford Street. Originally, this market was made for ex-servicemen only, see. I don&#8217;t know if they paid anything for the stalls&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oxford St still contains a number of small shops, interestingly no 29 is still dealing with watches as it was in the 1920\u2019s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1165 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham.jpeg?resize=300%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C658&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C493&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C987&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1315&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queensparkbooks.org.uk\/discover-brighton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Market-in-Oxford-St-Frank-Ingham-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Market in Oxford Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you reach the end of Oxford St you will have arrived at the Level. This was the site of many market stalls in the early part of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Street sellers included barrow boys, costermongers and street traders, who were itinerants, without capital, a fixed shop or regular customers.The barrow boys were extremely mobile, both geographically and socially. Mr. Harding recalls his beginnings: &#8220;I first started in Oxford Street with my father after I left school. 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