If you’ve ever been to a disco or club with the intent of meeting that special someone you may have heard of it as ‘going to the meat market’. In yesteryear, men were unable to obtain a divorce without invoking a special Act of Parliament, a protracted and expensive business and ladies had even less… Continue reading Wife Swapping and Selling at Smithfield Meat Market
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Smithfield Market on the moo-ve after 900 years
One of my favourite less-visited parts of London is the area known as Smithfield. Like many an ancient city in the Middle-East, India or elsewhere, London had and to an extent still has, districts that would specialise in certain produces such as gold, silver, fruit or meat. Smithfield has been a meat market for more… Continue reading Smithfield Market on the moo-ve after 900 years
Stephen Liddell 