The Metropolitan Cattle Market, just off the Caledonian Road in the parish of Islington was built by the City of London Corporation and was opened in June 1855 by Prince Albert. The market was supplem
The newly opened market in a contemporary etching
Inside the Metropolitan Meat Market
Present day park and Clock Tower
Panorama view from Clock Tower
In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which the
Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942
In the slaughterhouse, Lovis Corinth, 1893
London's Smithfield Market in 1855, before it was reconstructed
Pork packing in Cincinnati. Print from 1873 showing four scenes in a packing house: "Killing, Cutting, Rendering, [and] Salting."