Chris those are some glorious photos. You are a master.
On a more mundane level, they remind me of the meat & fish markets I saw as a child -
Smithfields and
Billingsgate respectively. We were always up early as children, similarly when staying with my Grandparents but never early enough to catch the men at the markets setting up - they worked through the night! The Upper Classes used to come out of Covent Garden Opera House and be able to go for a drink with the stall holders from the fruit & veg market, as they escaped England's punitive licensing laws due to the topsy turvy hours they kept.
And more recently it reminds me of Bradford meat & fish market, and Leicester covered market, much of both is now halal. Both lovely places to walk around (Bradford being far larger and therefore more time consuming) whether you are a shopper, a browser or just a sight-seer.
Thank you.