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The panorama opens looking up Newmarket Street towards the Richmond Centre. You can see Badgers pub on the left and The Millennium Forum and St Columb's Hall to the right.
As you rotate clockwise you can see down Orchard Street to the Library (the red brick building). Then the shops of Foyleside start to come into view.
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 seventeenth Century 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.
This panorama was created for the March 2005 WWP event. the theme of which was Marketplace.