From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extracted text : " The Metropolitan Meat Market " , from designs by Horace Jones. It is 630 ft. long, 245 ft. broad, and 30 ft. high, and THE METROPOLITAN MEAT was erected occupies an area of acres. The roof is made of glass and iron. The market is intersected from North to South by a broad carriage road, and below the building is It occupies the site of the old Smithfield Cattle Market. Smithfield, in early a railway depot, provided with a lift, by which the meat is conveyed to the market. was notorious as the place of execution
From "The Descriptive Album of London" by George H Birch 1896 - Extracted text : " The Metropolitan Meat Market " , from designs by Horace Jones. It is 630 ft. long, 245 ft. broad, and 30 ft. high, and THE METROPOLITAN MEAT was erected occupies an area of acres. The roof is made of glass and iron. The market is intersected from North to South by a broad carriage road, and below the building is It occupies the site of the old Smithfield Cattle Market. Smithfield, in early a railway depot, provided with a lift, by which the meat is conveyed to the market. was notorious as the place of execution of critninals, who were hung on the elm trees growing there. "
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