Stall holders and porters wait for early morning customers in Smithfield Market, Britain’s largest wholesale meat market, London, on Feb. 12, 1936. (AP Photo, File) An aerial view of Smithfield Market ...
Smithfield's name derives from the "smooth field" of the area's original landscape, an open space that lay outside the Roman Londinium's city walls. Today this inner-city area is characterised by its ...
LONDON (AP) — 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 ...