From the Mirror archives

May 23, 1946

Today’s post-war scene shows a little girl petting a goat at Club Row Market in Bethnal Green, East London. Intially a market where farmers could sell livestock outside the city walls, it eventually expanded to sell all kinds of exotic animals. French Huguenots, protestant refugees, who were accustomed to keeping canaries and other songbirds, bought and sold birds there in the 17th century. The market was eventually shut down in 1983 after a long campaign by animal rights groups.