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A House near Billingsgate

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A House near Billingsgate

1728

Near Billingsgate · a molly house named in Dalton’s Narrative, 1728

Down by the river at Billingsgate – then a working fish market and quay – stood another of the houses named without a keeper in Dalton’s Narrative of 1728. Nothing more of it survives than the mention. The pin marks the old market by the Thames; the house itself is a single line in a pamphlet, and everything else is lost.

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