London’s 850-Year-Old Smithfield Meat Market Is Set to Close
The historic site in Britain’s capital has been a market for centuries. The local authority voted this week to close it.
London will have lost its soul when Smithfield is finally butchered
The trouble with capitalism is it has no soul. It only values what can be measured in currency, which means that less ...
London’s historic Smithfield meat market to close
The City of London Corporation has shelved plans to relocate Smithfield and Billingsgate fish markets to a £1 billion ...
London’s Smithfield Market at risk of closure after more than 800 years
London’s historic Smithfield meat market is at risk of being closed for good at a vote in the City of London. The City of ...
London’s 850-year-old Smithfield meat market set to close
LONDON — For 22 years, John Burt has cut and trimmed steaks, chops and roasts in a butcher shop across the street from Smithfield, the oldest meat market in London. In that time, he said, he has ...
Landmark fish and meat markets in London to close, ending 1,000 years of tradition
Two of London’s most famous markets — one selling fish, the other meat — are set to close in the coming years, bringing an ...
London's 900-year-old Smithfield meat market to close as Dagenham move abandoned
City of London Corporation seeks to absolve itself from responsible of running the near-1,000-year-old Smithfield market, as ...
Two historic London food markets, hundreds of years old, to permanently close
The Smithfield and Billingsgate markets have a long history in the city of London, and date back nearly 900 years. They will ...
Historic London food markets that have operated for hundreds of years to permanently close
A pair of historic wholesale meat and fish markets in London will permanently close in the coming years. The Smithfield ...
‘Smithfield is British history – but we’re being kicked out so they can fill the space with cafes’
It is shortly after 4am in central London and a fleet of white transit vans is pulling into parking bays. Porters bent double ...
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London’s Famous Smithfield Meat Market Is Closing For Good
Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market in London are set to close and be turned into cultural and housing ...