Posted in News Smithfield’s 900 years of blood and guts: How traders at London’s oldest meat market worked in Dickensian ‘filth and mire’ for centuries – as gruesome executions took place yards away November 27, 2024 Smithfield Market was, wrote Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, a place where ‘filth and mire’ rose ‘nearly ankle-deep’, as the ‘reeking bodies of cattle’ massed all around. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14131373/Smithfield-Market-London-executions-oldest.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490