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 ...
'It's another London tradition that will go'
London's historic Smithfield and Billingsgate markets are set to shut after the City of London Corporation voted to withdraw ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
Smithfield: Historic meat market to close after more than 800 years trading in London
There has been a meat market on the site for more than eight centuries, but after 2028 that is set to change after a ...