The market in snow in December 2010. Photo: David Bank
Smithfield Market is the UK's largest wholesale meat market. There's been a livestock market on the site for over 800 years but the current buildings were opened in 1868, although there was a small amount of bomb damage from world war two.
The market consists of three listed buildings. Other market buildings have been demolished in recent years, and Museum of London has plans to move into the General Market Building in the next few years.
The wider area of Smithfield, in Farringdon, is also home to St Bartholomew's Hospital and London's oldest surviving church, St-Bartholomew-The-Great.
The clock was first installed in the market in 1870, and fixed as part of a wider market renovation in 1995. Photo: shadow_in_the_waterLooking north from the central thoroughfare of the market towards Charterhouse Street. Photo: Flamenco SunThe Smithfield Market bell. Photo: Matt BrownA now-closed entrance to the market. Photo: BobPhoto: David BankPoultry Market corridor. Photo: Matt BrownThis building was knocked down in 2010 to make way for Crossrail, the business long closed. Photo: Richard PartridgeNote the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the left of the shot. Photo: Rob OxleyPhoto: David BankPhoto: JansosStatues in snow. Photo: LondonDaveNo sniggering. Photo: Stockcar PetePhoto: Sean BattenPhoto: Martin PinkerPhoto: ErroneousCAMA rally of the Executioners, a club of vintage car collectors, at Smithfield Market. Photo: DarioPeeking through the iron gates. Photo: Zimmerman, WolfgangFood for thought. Photo: Andrea VailPort of London Authority building on Charterhouse Street. Photo: Gary KinsmanInside an abandoned market building. Photo: LiamCH
