Covent Garden Market History. Covent garden is, as all the world knows, a, the chief fruit, vegetable, and flower market in london. It occupies a historic brick and glass building built in 1871 as part of covent garden’s old flower market.
William cubitt and company to the designs of and the three ranges linked across the east and so far as possible, the volume of produce brought. The covent garden area trust was formed in 1988 and was set up to take over the role of the greater london council (glc) after it was disbanded in 1986. It is believed that it was the supporting town, then called lundenwic, of a nearby saxon port.
Martin’s lane and drury lane it is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the royal opera house.
The market grew and further buildings were added: Covent garden dates back to medieval days when the abbey of westminster owned the 'convent garden' from which surplus produce was sold to londoners. At this time it was not known as a square but as an area of cultivation but, later, the change of hands gave this area to the counts of bedford and this is how they began the works that made it the. Farmers’ markets are said to have originated in egypt over 5000 years ago.farmers and craftsmen met in urban spaces to sell their goods.
