The historic site in Britain’s capital has been a market for centuries. The local authority voted this week to close it.
The trouble with capitalism is it has no soul. It only values what can be measured in currency, which means that less ...
The City of London Corporation has shelved plans to relocate Smithfield and Billingsgate fish markets to a £1 billion ...
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 ...
Smithfield dates back to 1327, when Edward III gave the City of London Corporation the right to run a meat market ...
LONDON – For 22 years, John Burt has cut and trimmed steaks, chops and roasts in a butcher shop across the street from ...
The City of London’s closure of the old meat market displays an insulting disrespect for trade and civic pride ...
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 ...
A pair of historic wholesale meat and fish markets in London will permanently close in the coming years. The Smithfield ...
City of London Corporation seeks to absolve itself from responsible of running the near-1,000-year-old Smithfield market, as ...
Seven hours later, as rueful traders head off for their traditional dawn pint of Guinness one final time, Smithfield Market ...