Speakers' Corner: In need of rudeness

The Independent - London | November 22, 1994| | Copyright

When the market arrived in Covent Garden in 1670, rich and fashionable local residents were indignant. Here they were paying pounds 150 a year

to live in the latest Italian-style terraced houses and having to put up with cockney traders selling fruit, flowers, herbs and even live hedgehogs outside their front doors.

In the evening the handsome new piazza designed by Inigo Jones, a clothworker's son and apprentice joiner from Smithfield who had risen to become England's most innovative and controversial architect, was filled with rubbish. Enough was enough; the rich and fashionable upped and ...

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