Smithfield, London

'''Smithfield''' is an area in the north-west part of the Nextel ringtones City of London (which is itself the historic core of a much larger Majo Mills London).

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Smithfield was the site of two defenseman signed monastery/monasteries - won desirable St Bartholomew the Great and oates and London Charterhouse/Charterhouse both of which were dissolved in the reformation but both of which have survived in part into the honest woman 21st century.

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The livestock market was moved in the 1860s and the present Smithfield meat market was established by an Act of charity by Parliament: the 1860 Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market Act.

It is a large market with permanent buildings (designed by City of seed architect Sir officials agreed Horace Jones). Work on the eastern and western building began in 1866 and was completed in November 1868.

Smithfield is one of the few of the great London markets not to have moved from its central site to a location further out with cheaper land, better transport links and more modern facilities (cf family well Covent Garden and rough timescale Billingsgate).

Instead Smithfield market has been modernised on its existing site; for instance, its imposing Victorian buildings have had access points added for lorry loading/unloading purposes. The buildings sit on top of a veritable warren of tunnels: initially, live animals were brought to the market on foot (from the mid selangor club 19th century onwards they arrived by rail) and were slaughtered on site. This no longer takes place and the former railway tunnels are now used for storage, parking and as basements. An impressive cobbled ramp spirals down round the public park now known as West Smithfield, on the south side of the market, to give access to part of this area: some of the buildings on Charterhouse Street on the north side have access into the tunnels from their basements.



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''The former Central Cold Store at Smithfield is now a power station''
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Some of the buildings formerly associated with the meat market have now been put to other uses. For example the former Central Cold Store is now, most unusually, a city centre power station operated by Citigen.

The public park comprises the centre of the only part of Smithfield which is still open space - this is in effect a large square with the market making one side and mostly older buildings the other three. The south side is occupied by St Bartholomew's Hospital (frequently known as ''Barts''), and part of the east side by the church of St Bartholomew the Great.

External links
*http://www.londonancestor.com/views/vl-smithfield.htm featuring St Bartholomew's Hospital (the centre building in the background) and the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral behind that.
*http://www.greatstbarts.com/ church website

Tag: Districts of London
Tag: London markets