Smithfield meat Market to close

850-Year-Old Smithfield Meat Market in London to Close
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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 developments
Butchers tell of 'nightmare' as Smithfield market set to close after 900 years
Butchers tell of 'nightmare' as Smithfield market set to close after 900 years - ‘It’s going to be a nightmare for some of the butchers in London’ said one trader
Smithfield And Billingsgate Markets Will Soon Close Permanently – Within A Matter Of Years
The Smithfield And Billingsgate Markets were originally due to be relocated to Dagenham, but will now close permanently.
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 fish market in Canary Wharf, meaning they could both be gone within four years. Traders have been offered compensation and the corporation has said it will help them find new premises to operate on.
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 And Billingsgate Markets To Close Forever
The Smithfield site is particularly historic. Meat has been traded from the same spot since the 14th century. Billingsgate boasts similar antiquity, but its ancient home near London Bridge was closed in 1982 in favour of a larger site in the Docklands.
‘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 against the driving rain are rattling supermarket trolleys to and fro across the cobbles,
Smithfield and Billingsgate markets to be shut down as City of London agrees plan to pay off traders
The City of London Corporation must now submit a Private Bill with Parliament to finalise the decision to close the markets after hundreds of years in operation
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 end to traditions stretching back to medieval times
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 permanently close in the coming years.
'You can't wipe out Billingsgate Fish Market overnight'
The news that London's oldest fish market is facing permanent closure has shocked and saddened the tenants at Billingsgate ...
Billingsgate market traders ‘saddened’ by closure: 'This is an institution'
A market has existed in Smithfield since the medieval period. It was revamped as a wholesale meat market in the 1860s and is ...