{"id":13486,"date":"2024-11-26T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:32:42","slug":"900-years-and-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/26\/900-years-and-done\/","title":{"rendered":"900 Years and Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/society\/article\/londons-smithfield-market-set-to-close-after-almost-800-years-7gmgnhnqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">London\u2019s Smithfield Market to close after 900 years<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A vote has sealed the fate of the market, but legal experts say the plan may be unlawful \u2014 as City of London Corporation plans to pay traders millions in compensation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Andy Silvester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/imageserver\/image\/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fcc8040ec-6445-47db-a418-58f5440f613f.jpg?crop=3486%2C2628%2C0%2C0&amp;resize=1180\" alt=\"Butchers at Smithfield meat market, circa 1935 and, below, in 1950\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Butchers at Smithfield meat market, circa 1935 \/ HULTON ARCHIVE\/GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Smithfield, the capital\u2019s oldest meat market, is to close \u2014 bringing to an end 900 years of trading on the historic site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fate of both Smithfield and Billingsgate fish market, in Canary Wharf, was sealed during a private vote by the governing body of their owner and operator, the City of London Corporation, on Tuesday afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Corporation had previously planned to relocate both markets to a new site in Dagenham, in the capital\u2019s eastern suburbs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, owing to cost overruns, the court approved a new plan to scrap the \u00a31 billion relocation plan but close the market regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/society\/article\/londons-smithfield-market-set-to-close-after-almost-800-years-7gmgnhnqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Times London\u2019s Smithfield Market to close after 900 years A vote has sealed the fate of the market, but legal experts say the plan may be unlawful \u2014 as City of London Corporation plans to pay traders millions in compensation by Andy Silvester Smithfield, the capital\u2019s oldest meat market, is to close \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}