Smithfield: last orders for London’s historic meat market
Just before midnight, floodlit rows of heavy lorries block the streets around Smithfield market in the City of London. Their open doors reveal rows of dangling pig carcasses waiting to be hooked on to overhead rails and delivered to the butchers inside.
Smithfield dates back to 1327, when Edward III gave the City of London Corporation the right to run a meat market ...
It is shortly after 4am in central London and a fleet of white transit vans is pulling into parking bays. Porters bent double ...
Larger meat merchants and food wholesalers have prided themselves in a 'stack it high and sell it cheap' model ...
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Historic Smithfield and Billingsgate markets set to close after City pulls support for £1bn relocation planLondon’s historic Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are set to close after 800 years of trade after a £1billion relocation ...
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