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Old and New London
… at night for "swells" of the upper class, and also for market-gardeners and other persons, who resorted to the neighbouring market. As may be imagined, it bore no very good reputation. …
Survey of London
… were not erected until after the opening of Smithfield Market and were to do with the meat industry, it was knocked … down after only a few years for the creation of the market. The building was faced in red brick, with Box stone … meat-trade firms drawn to the area by the new Smithfield Market, replacing a temporary branch further up St John …
Survey of London
… to the markets in and around Smithfieldthe livestock market itself, held from the tenth century; Bartholomew Fair, … in 1123 and continued until the closure of the livestock market in 1855; and the cattle market at Cow Cross, which flourished in the thirteenth and …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… attracted the notice of the country-folk attending the market, and to whom the benevolent school-master depicted the … the west side of Newgate Street, the Nungate, Bigg Market, Union Street, Middle Street, Head of the Side, King …
Survey of London
… the cold-storage trade, expanding from around Smithfield Market, and so 'ruin the whole neighbourhood of this historic … had stopped producing clocks (reflecting the declining market in specialist hand-made pieces), concentrating instead …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Stall gear The equipment needed to set up a stall in the market or in front of a shop. It probably consisted of the …
Old and New London
… Square, was a well, enclosed in four low walls. The Hay Market and Hedge Lane, as late as the reign of Charles II., … was open country. In the ancient plans of London the Hay Market is quite clear of buildings, and Windmill Street …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… east side of the Head of the Side, Middle Street, and Bigg Market, and then turns along the passage into the Nuns, at … range of the north division of the shops in the New Flesh Market; and then, turning to the right, passes down the … Dean Street, the Side, and the east end of the New Fish-market, and then joins the south line, before noticed. …
Survey of London
… Railway from London Bridge to Waterloo and Hungerford Market. The line was to cross the garden of St. Thomas' …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… name. Stalbridge (St. Mary) STALBRIDGE ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Sturminster, hundred … through the parish. In the reign of Edward I. a grant of a market and fair was made to the abbot of Sherborne; the market is now on Tuesday: on every alternate Tuesday is a …