Bartholomew Fair Smithfield 1808 Thomas Higham Regent Street was already a

Regent Street was already a major West End shopping street

nouveau riche

This traditionally made Suffragette decoration comes complete with WSPU sash and rosette

Alscot Road in the North East

his social disgrace was even harder for him to bear

Bartholomew Fair Smithfield 1808 Thomas Higham Regent Street was already aBartholomew Fair, Smithfield. Crowds gather around stalls and fairground rides. Bartholomew fair was held annually, from its establishment in 1133 until it was surpressed in 1855, on the eve of St Batholomew's Day. 24th August. It was originally a cloth fair, but by the seventeeth century it had become more important as a centre of general entertainment. This print was published in The Microcosm of London.