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
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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 ...
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Smithfield Market: chefs bemoan the coming closure of one of London's only 24-hour operations
Smithfield dates back to 1327, when Edward III gave the City of London Corporation the right to run a meat market ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 historic Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are closing for good
The City of London Corporation has voted to withdraw its support for Smithfield meat market in Farringdon, and Billingsgate ...