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	Billingsgate Fish Co. Limited
		The exact origin of the name Billingsgate is lost in the mists of time.
		The particular attraction between Billingsgate and the young tram driver was never properly explained, however 1907 saw an ambitious new Canadian purchasing a pony and trap in an attempt to bring the London Billingsgate-type of distribution and service to the sparsely settled Prairies of Canada, and the future city of Calgary.
		In the course of expanding, The Billingsgate of Calgary never lost sight of the service aims of the Billingsgate of London: custom, quantity, variety and most of all, quality.
	www.billingsgate.com /about/history.html (711 words)

	Billingsgate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billingsgate is a ward in the south-east of the City of London, lying on the north bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.
		The ward included part of the old London docks, notably Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, whose neighbouring streets became a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Billingsgate Fish Market was formally established by an Act of Parliament in 1699.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billingsgate (168 words)

	Billingsgate Fish Market - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east of the City of London, where the riverside market was originally established.
		Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, became the centre of a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries, but did not become formally established until an Act of Parliament in 1699.
		In 1982, the fish market was relocated to a new 13 acre (53,000 m²) building complex close to Canary Wharf in east London.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /billingsgate_fish_market.htm (177 words)

	James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Billingsgate
		Billingsgate is one of the most famous of the Whistler etchings of the Thames River.
		Billingsgate is not rare in its final state - final state impressions were issued in a large edition and are often available on the market.
		It is unusual, however, to find an early state impression of Billingsgate, and, most unusual to find one signed in pencil (of course it is also signed and dated in the plate).
	www.artnet.com /artwork/424153731/_James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler_Billingsgate.html (391 words)

	Victorian London - Markets - Billingsgate
		Billingsgate is the only wholesale fish-market in London, and it may therefore be imagined how great must be the business transacted within its walls.
		Billingsgate so called, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, after Belin King of the Britons, who built the first water-gate here in 400 B.C., styled by Fuller “the Esculine gate of London,” and has been for the last five centuries the great fish-market of the metropolis.
		Billingsgate is smelt before it is seen: there is a whiff of fresh fish and of red herrings, a tarry seaside smell which is not altogether disagreeable.
	www.victorianlondon.org /markets/billingsgate.htm (11655 words)

	Encyclopedia: Billingsgate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billingsgate is a ward in the south-east of the
		Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, became the centre...
		Billingsgate Fish Market was formally established by an Act of Alternative meanings: Parliamentary system, Parliament (band), Parliament (cigarette).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Billingsgate (1020 words)

	Billingsgate Island Lighthouse
		A Lighthouse was needed on Billingsgate Island for the developing island fishing village and the fishing fleet entering Wellfleet Harbor.
		By 1850, Billingsgate Island fishing village was at its peak with 30 homes, a school, and try-works for rendering the oil from pilot whales caught in Cape Cod Bay.
		Today, Billingsgate Shoal is a sandbar that appears only at low tide and is marked by by a Lighted Buoy Fl G 2.5s, Lighted Buoy Fl R 2.5s, Lighted Horn Buoy Fl G 4s, Lighted Bell Buoy Fl G 4s, and a Red nun Buoy.
	home.comcast.net /~debee2/mass/Billingsgate.html (955 words)

	Encyclopedia: Billingsgate Fish Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The site of the original Billingsgate Fish Market in the City of London is now used as a hospitality and events venue under the name Old Billingsgate Market.
		The infamously coarse language of London fishmongers made "Billingsgate" a byword for crude or vulgar language.
		One of its earliest uses can be seen in a 1577 chronicle by Raphael Holinshed, where the writer makes reference to the foul tongues of Billingsgate oyster-wives.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Billingsgate-Fish-Market (806 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		A steady stream of billingsgate could be heard coming from the basement after my father hit his thumb with his hammer.
		From the time of the Roman occupation until the early 1980s, Billingsgate was a fish market in London, England, notorious for the crude language that resounded through its stalls.
		In fact, the fish merchants of Billingsgate were so famous for their swearing that their feats of vulgar language were recorded in British chronicler Raphael Holinshed's 1577 account of King Leir (which was probably Shakespeare's source for King Lear).
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Feb.18 (133 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Hey Joe! Your Porter Story Sounds Fishy!
		Billingsgate is an ancient market which was based on or near its original site on the Thames until it closed at the end of 1981 to relocate completely to London Docklands.
		On the premise that he didn’t work continuously at Billingsgate, it is impossible to predict from the known sources the length of time that he worked elsewhere.
		Barnett was a Billingsgate porter in the period between April 1887 and approximately July 1888.
	www.casebook.org /dissertations/dst-barnettporter.html (3632 words)

	Billingsgate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billingsgate is a ward in the south-east of the City ofLondon, lying on the north bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and TowerBridge.
		The ward included part of the old London docks, notably Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower ThamesStreet, whose neighbouring streets became a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Billingsgate Fish Market was formallyestablished by an Act of Parliament in 1699.
	www.therfcc.org /billingsgate-111564.html (151 words)

	Billingsgate Lighthouse
		Billingsgate Light is usually described as the Atlantis of Cape Cod.
		At its height, Billingsgate Island had 30 homes and its own school.
		According to the National Parks Service Cape Cod National Seashore Map, much of the area around Jeremy Point is under water except at the lowest tides.
	www.rudyalicelighthouse.net /MassLgts/Bllngte/Bllngte.htm (271 words)

	billingsgate
		Thus laden, the cutter or steamer puts on all her speed, and brings the fish to land, to Yarmouth, to Harwich, or even right to Billingsgate, according as distance, wind and tide, may show to be best.
		It has been known, on rare occasions, that thirty thousand lobsters have reached Billingsgate in one day; but, however large the number be, all find a market, the three million mouths in the metropolis, and the many additional millions in the provinces, having capacity to devour them all.
		The Billingsgate salesman must be at business by five in the morning, and his work is ended by eleven or twelve o'clock.
	www.angelfire.com /ks/landzastanza/billingsgate.html (3342 words)

	A Billingsgate Island Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Billingsgate is just barely covered at high tide but 'rises' 8-10 feet out of the water at low tide.
		There is history to be found detailing the little town of Billingsgate that sprang up on the island when it was truly an island several hundred years ago.
		The shoals around Billingsgate are known for excellent striped bass fishing.
	www.mywellfleet.com /ABillingsgateIslandTrip.htm (183 words)

	Pool of london: History of the Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The story of international trade at Billingsgate dates back to the earliest Roman period, when the port was first constructed roughly in line with the buildings on the north side of Lower Thames Street.
		The name of Billingsgate was first recorded around 1000AD when it was already the centre of bustling international trade.
		Billingsgate remained at the centre of London's wholesale fish trade until the market finally closed in 1982, and moved to modern premises in London's East End.
	www.pool-of-london.co.uk /history/history4.php (191 words)

	Ultimate Cape Cod, Geologic History of Cape Cod by Robert N. Oldale
		It is clear that shore erosion is threatening the lighthouse as the sea wall of boulders was built in a futile effort to protect the lighthouse from wave attack.
		Blocks of stone behind the boulders of the original riprap sea wall are all that remain of Billingsgate lighthouse.
		The fate of Billingsgate Island may be a precursor for Cape Cod as the sea continues to erode the fragile land (photo by Dann S. Blackwood, U.S. Geological Survey).
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/capecod/ultimate.html (373 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Billingsgate (London).
		This quay is so called from the shouting of the fishermen in trying to attract attention and vend their fish.
		you are as rude and ill-mannered as the women of Billingsgate fish-market.
		The French say “Maubert” instead of Billingsgate, as Your compliments are like those of the Place Maubert, i.e.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1864.html (141 words)

	East End history, London history, End End of London, Tower Hamlets, West India Docks, Billingsgate Fish Market, ...
		When the Billingsgate Market bell rang to announce the commencement of trading on January 19, 1982, it marked just the latest stop in the market’s long and troubled history.
		At first, Queenhithe was more important, but gradually Billingsgate, with its proximity to the water and ability to deal with the bigger fishing vessels, took over.
		The first toll regulations for Billingsgate were drawn up in 1016 and, by the 13th century, corn, malt and salt were being landed, as well as fish.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /Billingsgate.htm (832 words)

	Tower Hamlets On-Line: Billingsgate
		The first document to refer to Billingsgate was written about 1000 years ago.
		They moored their boats along the banks of Billingsgate and sold their fish directly to customers from the decks of their boats.
		In 1689, Billingsgate became a specialist fish market and fish selling was transferred onto land, into an open-air market place.
	www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/pool/market_2.shtml (254 words)

	London & Middlesex Archaeological Society: Special Paper 14: Saxo-Norman London 3 Bridgehead & Billingsgate: abstract
		During the period 400-900 the evidence on these four sites confirms recent suggestions that the Roman city was largely deserted; the Roman waterfront was gradually obscured by silts of the rising river, and the Roman bridge, if it still survived, probably did not form a focus of activity or public resort.
		The earliest post-Roman structural activities discovered between Billingsgate and London bridge were the jetty and associated rubble bank at New Fresh Wharf, dated to the late 10th or early 11th century.
		The development of the waterfront area south of Thames Street, between the bridge and Billingsgate, can be seen within the context of the late 10th- and early 11th-century development of the immediate neighbourhood and of the city as a whole.
	www.lamas.org.uk /abstracts/steedman1992.html (568 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: List of Tolls Exacted at Billingsgate, c. 978-1016 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This well-known toll list for Billingsgate represents one of the earliest of such lists in England.
		The nature of foreign trade in the tenth century, and the kinds of goods exchanged, are indicated in the document.
		If a small ship arrives at Billingsgate it will give one obole as thelony; if a larger ship, and if it has a sail, one denarius.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/billingsgate-tolls.html (425 words)

	Billingsgate Fish Bistro
		Billingsgate Market was established in the streets around Billingsgate Wharf in London in 1698 and although now at a different location, it’s still London’s Fish Market and going strong today.
		But back to our Billingsgate, the old Balzac site, which has recently undergone a bit of an overhaul in the kitchen and on the floor.
		The crisp skin of the bream in perfect harmony with the soft, gooey, oniony potatoes, the flakey pastry contrasting with the gelatinous, rich filling of the pie and the soused vegetables a tipsy dream of flavour enhancing the fish sitting on top.
	www.classic.com.au /wizard/Billingsgate.htm (436 words)

	Billingsgate Market
		Daily arrivals from the coast and overseas ensure a continuity of fresh supplies and with some 54 merchants trading in close proximity in the Market Hall, competition is keen.
		A carrier service is available serving London and the Home Counties and arrangements can usually be made for supplies to be dispatched to most parts of the country.
		Billingsgate Market is thus able to offer an excellent one stop service to the busy trade buyer.
	www.billingsgate-market.org.uk (197 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - London by Day and Night, by David W.Bartlett, 1852 ...
		Foul language is often characterized as "billingsgate," but we dare say there are some in America who use the word without understanding its origin.
		The people who do business in it are a low and dirty class, and at all hours of the day the market is the scene of noise, confusion, and filth.
		Billingsgate is named after Belin, a king of the Britons, who built a gate on this spot 400 years before the birth of Christ.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications/dayandnight-8.htm (7952 words)

	Billingsgate on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The word Billingsgate, a synonym for coarse language, arose from references to the speech of the district's fish mongers.
		Doctor aids Johnson recovery Rider stars on Billingsgate to show that he has lost none of his skills during his injury-enforced absence
		Billingsgate angles for a firmer footing The market's future is not wrapped up.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Billngsgt.asp (437 words)

	OUTSIDE THE LAW (1974 Billingsgate BG 1009) LP
		Since "Billingsgate" was a record label company in the United States, this US press was an original issue of this work.
		Although the logo illustration of US Billingsgate remained, the logo of Membran which was in the upper right was erased.
		Although the front jacket was using of a German Membran label's one, the name of Membran label, and the illusted man on the left of the label mark of Billingsgate, and the name of Billingsgate were smeared away.
	www.geocities.com /minormind/epitaph/3.htm (672 words)

	Old Wharf Dory Co: Billingsgate Bass Boats
		I was fishing off Billingsgate Shoals in my 18' Simmons Sea Skiff, with a nice SW wind against the tide producing a good 2'-3'chop.
		The Billingsgate Bass Boat has been designed and constructed for fly-fishing, casting, and trolling the waters surrounding Cape Cod, and New England.
		I am looking for one or two daring individuals to purchase the first boats built, to help with the development of this unique vessel.
	www.oldwharf.com /ow_billbassboat.html (294 words)

	billingsgate - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		the kind of speech often heard at Billingsgate, a London fish market at the gate of the same name
		1676, the kind of coarse, abusive language once used by women in the Billingsgate fish market on the River Thames below London Bridge (c.1250).
		"Billingsgate is the market where the fishwomen assemble to purchase fish; and where, in their dealings and disputes they are somewhat apt to leave decency and good manners a little on the left hand." ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1811]
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/billingsgate (161 words)

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