The historic site in Britain’s capital has been a market for centuries. The local authority voted this week to close it.
The City of London Corporation has shelved plans to relocate Smithfield and Billingsgate fish markets to a £1 billion ...
After some 900 years, the iconic Smithfield market will close its doors in 2028 with the future of the traders uncertain ...
It is shortly after 4am in central London and a fleet of white transit vans is pulling into parking bays. Porters bent double ...
Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market in London are set to close and be turned into cultural and housing ...
Two of London’s most famous markets — one selling fish, the other meat — are set to close in the coming years, bringing an ...
The site was in use from at least the 12th Century for the sale of livestock, with the City of London being granted market ...
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 ...
There has been a meat market on the site for more than eight centuries, but after 2028 that is set to change after a ...
The trouble with capitalism is it has no soul. It only values what can be measured in currency, which means that less ...
Smithfield dates back to 1327, when Edward III gave the City of London Corporation the right to run a meat market ...