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STREET AND OPEX MARKETS
Number of licences in operation during 1953: —
Street markets 118
Open markets 263
Total 381
Income for 1953 : — £. s. d.
Street markets 1,436 15 9
Open markets 4,647 13 6
Total £6,084 9 3
Number of prosecutions during 1953 Nil
London Bridge Area
In my Annual Report for 1952 I reported the designation of
a part of Railway Approach for the sale of fruit and flowers, and
I am pleased to say that the small market now established there
has been successful and trouble-free throughout the year. This
designation seems to have served the very useful purpose of
eliminating from this area the host of unlicensed traders who used
to frequent it, and has incidentally saved the staff and the police
considerable trouble and the Council considerable expenditure in
connection with the many prosecutions that had to be instituted
against these traders for street trading offences.