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| Smithfield is home to the largest wholesale meat market in the UK, with an 800 year history. Nearby religious martyrs were burned at the stake, the leader of the Peasants revolt Wat Tyler was slain by the Lord Mayor, and Barts Hospital founded. The area will change substantially over the next decade as the market moves to Barking, and the Museum of London develops a new home in West Smithfield. | Smithfield is home to the largest wholesale meat market in the UK, with an 800 year history. Nearby religious martyrs were burned at the stake, the leader of the Peasants revolt Wat Tyler was slain by the Lord Mayor, and Barts Hospital founded. The area will change substantially over the next decade as the market moves to Barking, and the Museum of London develops a new home in West Smithfield. | ||
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| - | # Smithfield history | ||
| - | [+EC1 places index](https:// | ||
| - | Some of this content is also on the [Cloth Fair site](https:// | ||
| + | [+Index](https:// | ||
| + | [101 collection](https:// | ||
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| + | See also [+Smithfield Market development](https:// | ||
| - | https://player.vimeo.com/video/ | + | Smithfield is home to the largest wholesale meat market in the UK, with an 800 year history. Nearby religious martyrs were burned at the stake, the leader of the Peasants revolt Wat Tyler was slain by the Lord Mayor, and Barts Hospital founded. The area will change substantially over the next decade as the market moves to Barking, and the Museum of London [develops a new home in West Smithfield](https://bit.ly/3uz56WE). |
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| - | - [Founders and Farmers, Ironmongers and Martyrs](https:// | + | |
| - | - [Another look at Smithfield pubs](https:// | + | |
| - | **Other blogs to review** | ||
| - | [Exploring London - Smithfield category](https:// | ||
| - | [Ian Visits - search on Smithfield](https:// | ||
| - | [Know Your London - Smithfield category](https:// | ||
| - | **Other articles** | + | *Scroll to view this Google Streetview* |
| - | - [Hidden gems of West Smithfield](https:// | ||
| - | - [Smithfield’s Bloody Past](https:// | ||
| - | - [A potted history of Smithfield](https:// | ||
| - | - [Smithfield in British History online](https:// | ||
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| - | ## Museum of London articles and videos | ||
| - | **Smithfield Past, Present and Future** | + | [**Market website**](https:// |
| - | Smithfield Market, in the City of London, has a rich history and a bright future. Watch our three-part video series on the history of West Smithfield as a centre of the city's meat trade, through the chaos of war and decades of decline, and its possible future as the new home for the Museum of London. | + | |
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| + | **Wikipedia** | ||
| - | **Smithfield Market: monks, meat and merriment** | + | https://bit.ly/2QbgkS8 |
| - | The Museum of London is planning a [move to West Smithfield](https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ | + | |
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| - | [+Smithfield Market](https:// | ||
| - | [+Smithfield Market development](https:// | ||
| - | [+Smithfield Martyrs](https:// | ||
| - | [+Smithfield wider vision](https:// | ||
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| - | ## Videos | ||
| - | * [Joolzguides - search results on Smithfield](https:// | + | **EC1 Echo** |
| - | * [Museum of London - three-part video series](https:// | + | |
| - | * [Smithfield Market: Executions, Body Snatchers, and Bloody Mary](https:// | + | |
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| - | * [Meat, Museums and Malarky: Trouble at Smithfield](https:// | + | |
| - | * [London’s 1000 Year Old Night MEAT Market - SMITHFIELD’S.](https:// | + | |
| - | * [1970s London St Barts and market](https:// | + | |
| - | * [Executions, | + | |
| - | * [Smithfield 150 highlights - London' | + | |
| - | * [Where Are London' | + | |
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| - | **Excerpts from Clerkewell 101** | + | **Reference** |
| - | . In the past it was one of the most vibrant and cruel places in London, where huge crowds attended the four day St Bartholomew Fair, jousting tournaments and public executions and burnings. | ||
| - | **8** Smithfield Meat Market has been operating almost constantly for over **800 years**. In the Middle Ages, Smithfield was a wide grassy space, with access to grazing and water from the River Fleet. Until 1855 cattle, sheep and horses were brought into Smithfield to be sold or slaughtered. In June 1855 the live market was closed due to complaints about the chaos and mess caused by driving live cattle to what was now central London. After 1886, cattle were slaughtered elsewhere and the meat brought to the newly-erected Smithfield Meat Market by train. | + | ---------- |
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| - | **10 Woodville Vs The Bastard**. On June 11th and 12th, 1467 the most spectacular tournament of the age was held at Smithfield in London. King Edward IV declared a public holiday. Anthony Woodville, the Queen’s brother, was selected as the English challenger. Woodville’s opponent was Antoine, the Bastard of Burgundy. He was publicly acknowledged as the natural son of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and was one of the most renowned jousters in Europe. The challenge on the first day saw Woodville knock ‘The Bastard’ and his horse to the ground, killing the horse. The following day saw foot combat so ferocious and lengthy that King Edward stopped the fight before there was a death, announcing it a valiant draw. | ||
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| - | **11** Pre-Margaret Thatcher **Poll Tax Riots**. In 1381 there were violent protests about a poll tax. During this unrest, Wat Tyler, leader of the Peasants’ Revolt, was confronted by the Lord Mayor and the 14-year-old King Richard II in Smithfield. Tyler was injured and then beheaded following a scuffle. | ||
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| - | **12** On April 5th, 1531 Richard Rouse, **the cook to the Bishop of Rochester, was boiled alive** at Smithfield. A fitting end for a chef. He had been found guilty of accidentally murdering several colleagues while attempting to poison his employer. It is said that Anne Boleyn and her family had bribed Rouse to poison the soup, as the Bishop was openly critical of Henry VIII saying it was against God’s law for the King to be the Head of the Church of England. He was the first victim of legal boiling in England. According to an eyewitness, *“He roared mighty loud”*. | ||
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| - | **13 Wife-selling** was a genuine way of divorcing for those who couldn’t afford proper legal procedures. In 1797 The Oracle and Public Advertiser reported: *‘In Smithfield Market, another anti-matrimonial bargain has taken place in this mart of living stock. The price of ladies has risen here; a man sold his wife yesterday for three guineas and a half.’* | ||
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| - | **14** The current distinctive meat market was **designed by Horace Jones** and opened in 1868, so has just celebrated its 150th birthday. Five miles of iron girders were used in its construction. The building had refrigerated storage and rail links to accommodate meat that was slaughtered elsewhere and brought in by train. | + | ##3. Conversions from MD file using allapps, opened |
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| - | **19** By the middle of the 19th century **220,000 head of live cattle** and 1,500,000 sheep would pass through Smithfield market in a year. By 1963, 400,000 tons of meat passed through per year. In 1975 Smithfield Market employed 2,700 people. A further 3,000 worked in around 100 firms within a few hundred yards. By 1980, though, it had fallen to around 200,000 tons and by 2009 it was just 85,000 tons. Could the large number of butchers’ chains that now buy direct from producers, and the recent popularity for a ‘plant based diet’ mean that this ancient establishment may face the chop itself one day? Let’s hope not. | ||
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| - | **20 St Bart’s Hospital was founded in 1123 by King Henry I’s jester**. Rahere, a minstrel and fun- lover at the court of Henry I, caught malaria on a pilgrimage to Rome. He vowed that if he should survive, he would reform his licentious ways and set up a hospital and church to serve London’s poor. | ||
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| - | **21** The church founded by Rahere still survives. St Bartholomew-The-Great is the oldest Parish church in London, and was the setting for Hugh Grant’s almost-wedding to ‘Duck Face’ in **Four Weddings and a Funeral**. In 2008, the church’s controversial rector, Rev Martin Dudley, became the first clergyman to conduct an unauthorised ‘gay wedding’ in an Anglican church. Much to the annoyance of the Anglican church. | ||
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