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Description: | Horses stamp the cobbles and men load and unload produce at Central Market, near Farringdon Street.
Central Market, or Smithfield Market as it is otherwise known, is the main meat market in London. Meat has been bought and sold on this spot for 800 years. There is a railway under the market linking it with the major railway stations, so meat could be brought in directly. After the fire in the market in 1958, which destroyed the building pictured, the railway was no longer used.
Smithfield also has its own police force and pub, which is licensed from 6.30am. Smithfield was still a working market in 2006, unlike many of the other old markets such as Covent Garden, that have been moved out of the centre of town. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Cityscape Work | Temporal: | circa 1920 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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