The Smithfield Market and Billingsgate Market will remain open for meat and fish sales, respectively, until "at least 2028" but will ultimately close their doors, the City of London Corporation said.
It might not be here and it probably won't be called Billingsgate but it will continue." The news that London's oldest fish market is facing permanent closure has shocked and saddened the tenants ...
London's historic Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market will no longer operate after the City of London Corporation said its council yesterday voted to cease trading. There had been ...
The City of London Corporation has agreed to stop running the historic Billingsgate Market in Poplar and pay compensation to traders. The corporation still needs to submit a Private Bill to ...
“I’m saddened by the fact that at this moment in time people are going to think that London is not going to have a fish market.” Those are the words of Tony Lyons, who has been selling fish ...
London's historic Billingsgate fish market is set to shut after the City of London Corporation voted to withdraw support for it, reports the BBC. Billingsgate developed from an open-air medieval ...
Billingsgate Market porters used to wear a distinctive flat-topped leather hat upon which they would carry produce Billingsgate Market has a similarly long history, developing from an open-air ...