The area had been known for dog fighting and bull-baiting but the housing development and market chased these entertainments away: As the philanthropic or curious visitor enters Skinner Street, about eleven o’clock some bright Sunday morning, his ears will be greeted, not by the barking of dogs and the roaring of infuriated bulls, as of old, but by the unnaturally loud cries of men, women, boys, and girls, anxious to sell edibles and drinkables—in fact, everything which a hard-working man or poor sempstress is supposed to need in order to keep body and soul together.Chapel Street is now an access way through Levita House and continues west into Drummond Crescent as Churchway.

[2] Unregulated street markets allowed London to grow explosively in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The traders could move easily to the new population centres and enabled people to buy provisions without having to travel to the central London wholesale markets.

In the early morning traders would load their barrows at the wholesale markets, clean and sort the goods, and then sell them in the new suburban streets.

[5]In 1893, Chalton Street Market is described as comprising 97 stalls on a Friday and 32 on a Saturday selling food as well as clothing and second-hand goods.

[6] Henry Croft, the founder of the tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens[7] was born in St Pancras Workhouse, Somers Town in 1861.

Though he was a road sweeper rather than a costermonger, his colourful style of raising money for charity has influenced cockney market traders down to this day illustrated by a parade of Pearly Kings and Queens at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics.