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  • An earlier French chapel had been erected on Marketfield street, then called Petticoat Lane, near the Battery.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Mayhew brilliantly describes the tohu bohu of the Covent Garden flower and vegetable market, takes us along Petticoat Lane with its myriad street vendors of secondhand goods, and reveals the multiple uses for a piece of castoff wool clothing.

    Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011

  • If a senior year is not necessary, we hope you will finish your education on Petticoat Lane just like I did.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • Kansas City is truly “on the move” with boulevards, baseball, mansions, Petticoat Lane, and a magnificent railway station.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • If a senior year is not necessary, we hope you will finish your education on Petticoat Lane just like I did.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • Kansas City is truly “on the move” with boulevards, baseball, mansions, Petticoat Lane, and a magnificent railway station.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • Jane from Petticoat Lane suggested I buy an orange cardigan from Boden to match my yet-to-be sewn skirt, so I did.

    Archive 2008-09-01 The List Writer 2008

  • Jane from Petticoat Lane suggested I buy an orange cardigan from Boden to match my yet-to-be sewn skirt, so I did.

    10 things The List Writer 2008

  • Bright, keen faces would be there, and we, were we by any chance to find ourselves beside the captain, might recognise the double of this great earthly magnate or that, Petticoat Lane and Park Lane cheek by jowl.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Chapel, just by the corner of Petticoat Lane, where the coaches stand that go out to Stratford and Bow, and that side of the country, and another time at the Flying Horse, without Bishopgate, where the Cheston coaches then lay; and I had always the good luck to come off with some booty.

    Moll Flanders 2003

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