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The panorama opens looking towards the junction of Market Street and Newmarket Street in Derry. Market Street was once the location of Derry's Linen-Hall. The market in which the linen exported through the port of Derry was bought and sold. In the mid-nineteenth century this amounted to more than a million yards of linen sold in the Linen-Hall each year. As the commercial development grew on either side of the mediaeval city walls, it gave rise to the only breach, in those walls that eventually became Newmarket Street. (The city walls themselves are the stone structure that can be seen if you rotate to look uphill. beyond Badger's pub.) No longer the site of a market itself, Newmarket Street is now the thoroughfare that connects Derry's two main shopping centres - The Richmond Centre (in the distance) and Foyleside Shopping Centre immediately behind the camera. A panorama taken from the other side of the Richmond Centre featured in the March 04 WWP event. Behind the scene : how this panorama was made
There is a street market in Derry, I made a panorama of it last May. More panoramas of Derry are available at the Very Derry website 
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