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Watch: Fifty years of New Covent Garden Market

The UK's largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market is celebrating 50 years of trading in south London.

New Covent Garden Market moved out of the West End to Nine Elms, in Battersea in November 1974.

Since then it's continued to play an important part in London trade but is once again preparing to move in the next few years to an improved site just down the road.

To mark the milestone, we've been speaking to people who the first move and life at the market since.

Story by Alice Hopkins

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