Smithfield, or London Central Markets as it is formally known, is the largest wholesale meat market in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. We went to here, and felt the real life of the london.
Located within the Square Mile of the City of London it is housed in three listed buildings.It is a place packed with history there has been a livestock market on the site for over 800 years and yet is as modern as tomorrow with its state of the art facilities for the receiving, storing and despatching of meat and poultry.I was shocked by the size of the market and how fresh the meat looked, but my sense of smell was not good.
Billingsgate Market is the largest inland fish market in the UK.An average of 25,000 tons of fish and fish products are sold each year through its traders.About 40 percent of that tonnage includes fish imported from abroad.The annual turnover of the market is estimated at about 200 million pounds.
When the time we got to the Billingsgate market, they were almost sold out, but there was a very strong smell of fish in the air, and the ground was very slippery.Billingsgate is the largest inland fish market in the UK.An average of 25,000 tons of fish and fish products are sold each year through its traders.About 40 percent of that tonnage includes fish imported from abroad.The annual turnover of the market is estimated at around 200 million pounds, and the market is also a very old landmark, opened in 1876 as a protected building, and then moved to Docklands in 1982.
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