Download or read book Cheap Street written by Victoria Kelley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From around 1850, London’s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London’s lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.