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Borough Market is a wholesale and retail food market in Southwark, Central London, England. It is one of the largest and oldest food markets in London. In 2014, it celebrated its 1,000th birthday The present market, located on Southwark Street and Borough High Street just south of Southwark Cathedral on the southern end of London Bridge, is a successor to one that originally adjoined the end of London Bridge. It was first mentioned in 1276, although the market itself claims to have existed since 1014 "and probably much earlier" and was subsequently moved south of St Margaret’s church on the High Street. The City of London received a royal charter from Edward VI in 1550 to control all markets in Southwark, which was confirmed by Charles II in 1671. However, the market caused such traffic congestion that, in 1754, it was abolished by an Act of Parliament. The present buildings were designed in 1851, with additions in the 1860s and an entrance designed in the Art Deco style added on Southwark Street in 1932. A refurbishment began in 2001. The present-day market mainly sells speciality foods to the general public. Borough Market has become a fashionable place to buy food. It has been promoted by British television chefs and has been used as a film set. Notable films with scenes filmed in the streets around the market include: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). It also appeared in the Savage Garden music video for "Hold Me". In 1998, the artist Anna Best staged an event in Borough Market entitled "The Wedding Project’" commissioned by Tate Modern. As reported by the Evening Standard, the market is now available to hire for private events.

This stone house was built in 1804 on the site of a wooden structure that was torn down to create space for it. The stone mason was Nicolas Morin and Charles-Simon Delorme was responsible for the woodwork. The new building originally had two storeys. Its first owner was Jacob Wurtele, an innkeeper of German origin. Since Wurtele already had another establishment on the Place Royale, it is possible that he leased his new house to tenants. However, it seems that by 1810 he was receiving guests in this new building and was living in it himself. Wurtele died the following year. He left all his property to his widow, Sarah Bruner. She remarried twice: the first time to William Joshua Andrews and then to Moses Knapp. Sarah Bruner died in 1819. In 1822, The house was seized by the sheriff and sold as a result of a lawsuit undertaken against Moses Knapp by the children of Wurtele and Bruner. Thomas Del Vecchio, another innkeeper, bought the house. He added a third floor to the building in 1825. Del Vecchio died in 1826 and his heirs continued to own the hotel until 1912, although the name of the establishment changed several times. A fourth floor – made of brick – was added to the building around 1900 and wooden stables were built in the back yard. Around 1910, the building was sold to Pacific Vandelac whose family operated a hotel and tavern on the premises for some 50 years. During the 1920’s the stables were converted into market stalls. In 1961 the city of Montreal expropriated the property with the intention of turning it into an underground parking garage. Thankfully, the renewed interest in Old Montreal as an historical site led to the preservation and restoration of the building before it could be demolished. The fourth floor was removed, as were the wooden market stalls. It now houses a Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream shop.

When they were replaced in the 1970’s by the new 911 system, the ornate, wrought-iron emergency call boxes that still grace the streets of the District were an unwanted remnant of old infrastructure. Too heavy and burdensome to remove, they became increasingly derelict until many of them were weird windows on the city. Devoid of any mechanism or purpose, they were like faceless clocks, or little streetside shrines with no idols inside. Since 2002, however, the "Art on Call" project, created by Cultural Tourism D.C., has turned 122 of the 1860s-era fire and police call boxes into public pedestals for local art and quirky history markers. (Washington Post, August 2, 2009)

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