Covent Garden’s market trader’s plaque

Surprisingly easy to miss considering how large it is, on a side street next to Covent Garden is a monumental plaque to the people who worked there when it was a fruit and vegetable market.The bronze relief was commissioned, reputedly following a call to the Royal Opera House by a family that had traded in the fruit market when it was open, only to be told by the incredulous employee that there was no way the buildings had ever been a fruit market.
So, in 2003, Sheila Springer, whose late husban