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Portobello Voices
Blanche Girouard
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Description for Portobello Voices
Paperback.
Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year ...and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make ... Read more
Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year ...and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz - from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur and make ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752499369
SKU
V9780752499369
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99-50
About Blanche Girouard
Blanche Girouard has made two documentaries for BBC World Service and was shortlisted in the Guardian 's International Journalism competition while recording the lives of missionaries and their children in Burkina Faso. She has written for professional journals, Country Life and the Guardian.
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