Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tekram n.

also takram
[backsl.]

market, esp. Covent Garden; thus ogging ot tekram, going to market.

[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 128: NI-OG OT TAKRAM, going to market.
[UK]Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
[UK]Sl. Dict. 355: Ogging ot tekram going to market.
[Aus]Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 11: Ogging ot Tokram - Going to market.
[UK]Northampton Mercury 12 Apr. 12/4: The phrase ‘niog ot tekram’ [is] constantly in use by costers’.
[UK]St Andrews Citizen 18 July 1/1: [advert] LLA ‘MOOR EMOH SDEEN’ Texn ot Enalrafcam Recorg ni Tekram Teerts.
[UK]D. Powis Signs of Crime 204: Tekram Any street market, once only the Covent Garden or Finsbury markets (London backslang).