All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets. There seems to have been a deliberate attempt to attract the more prestigious trades. In the late fourteenth century more than four-fifths of the shopkeepers were haberdashers, glovers, cutlers, bowyers and fletchers or from related trades. By 1600 all of these had dwindled except the haberdashers, and the spaces were filled by additional haberdashers, by traders selling textiles and by grocers. From the late seventeenth century there was a greater variety of trades, including metalworkers such as pinmakers and needle makers, sellers of durable goods such as trunks and brushes, booksellers and stationers.
all the houses were shops and the bridge was one of the city of london's four or five main shopping streets there seems to have been a deliberate attempt to attract the more prestigious trades in the late fourteenth century more than four-fifths of the shopkeepers were haberdashers glovers cutlers bowyers and fletchers or from related trades by 1600 all of these had dwindled except the haberdashers and the spaces were filled by additional haberdashers by traders selling textiles and by grocers from the late seventeenth century there was a greater variety of trades including metalworkers such as pinmakers and needle makers sellers of durable goods such as trunks and brushes booksellers and stationers