East London market could lose fishmongers as closure of Billingsgate may force them out of business
The City of London Corporation agreed last November to pull out of running Smithfield and Billingsgate markets, with a ...
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Smithfield Market to close after 900 years, following City vote
the City of London Corporation, had planned to relocate Smithfield and Canary Wharf’s Billingsgate fish market to the east-end suburb, but on Tuesday the body’s Court of Common Council voted ...
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Historic 900-Year-Old London Markets Set to Shut Down
Two iconic markets in central London with ... meat and fish markets. The vote pours cold water on plans to relocate the markets to a £1b ($1.3b) development in Dagenham, East London.
AP PHOTOS: Meat and greet: Historic London market counting down the years
Norman Gregory is an institution within an institution. He’s been working at the historic Smithfield wholesale meat market in central London since 1961, witnessing first hand the rapid transformation ...