Billingsgate Fish Market is the United Kingdom's largest inland fish market. It takes its name from Billingsgate, a ward in the south-east corner of the City of London, where the riverside market was
Billingsgate Market in 2010
The original open air Billingsgate Fish Market in the early 19th century. Boats delivered fish to this small inlet of the Thames and business was conducted on the quayside.
The 1870s market by Horace Jones
Smithfield, properly known as West Smithfield, is a district located in Central London, part of Farringdon Without, the most westerly ward of the City of London, England.
Billingsgate Fish Market
…2019, the City of London Corporation's main decision-making body, the Court of Common Council, proposed that Billingsgate, New Spitalfields Market and Smithfield Market should move to a new consolidated site in Dagenham Dock. A formal planning application was made in June 2020, and received outline permission in March…
Depiction of Wat Tyler's demise by the hand of Sir William Walworth in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, with Richard II watching at right
Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, looking West, 1904 by Philip Norman
Old Smithfield in 1855, an outdoor market