Smithfield Meat Market London Antique Print Old Victorian Picture 1896 RL#218

Description: Smithfield Meat Market London 1896 Antique Print A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side. Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm. Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) SMITHFIELD MEAT MARKET.—Giltspur Street leads north from Newgate Gaol into Smithfield, or "Smoothfield," around which many of London's most sacred memories gather. But as its market is the first object that strikes the eye, we are naturally drawn first to notice its great Cattle Fair, which is not without its reminiscences, since it is celebrated by Shakespeare. "Where's. Bardolph?" asks Falstaff ; and his page answers, "He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse." Smithfield gradually grew to be the great and only cattle market of London. As many as 210,757 cattle and 1,518,510 sheep were sold here annually; but the market was always inconvenient and an intolerable nuisance to the neighbourhood. Dickens describes the awful scene in " Oliver Twist." The market for living animals in Smithfield was transferred to Copenhagen Fields in 1852, and some years later the New Meat Market was begun on its site. The interior of this enormous place is a perfect forest of slaughtered calves, pigs, and sheep, hanging from cast-iron balustrades. The London Central Meat Market was erected here in 1862-68. The building was designed by Horace Jones in a pleasing Renaissance style, with four towers at the corners. It is 630ft. long, 245ft. broad, and 3oft. high, and it covers an area of some 3 1/2 acres. The roof is of glass and iron, and a broad carriage road intersects the market from north to south. Below this enormous building is an extensive railway depot belonging to the Great Western Company, from which the meat is conveyed to the market by a lift. To the west of the meat market is the new market for pork, poultry, and provisions, opened in 1876. There are also other markets here.

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2025-01-03T19:16:06.000Z

Shipping Cost: 17.07 GBP