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God please don't. Turning everything into a playground to tickle infantile superficial tastes: conical shaped nonsense structures covered with primary colours,
by leg100 4y ago
God please don't. Turning everything into a playground to tickle infantile superficial tastes: conical shaped nonsense structures covered with primary colours, meaningless naff slogan in neon "Maybe it's because", renderings showing people milling about doing bugger all.
They should have done everything possible to reverse the trend and keep it a meat market. Commerce keeps a place alive, people working and doing stuff.
> ...channeling meat trucks through the congested heart of London does seem like a habit from another era.
Why? Turning cities inside out isn't an era I'd want to live in. London should be braver rather than doing what every other city in the world is doing.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoIt's not meaningless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_It%27s_Because_I%27m_a_Londoner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_It%27s_Because_I%27m_a_L...
- Symbiote 4y agoI don't know how many road vans were used, but deliveries were done by rail from the very start right through to the end of the meat market at Smithfield: https://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/post/getting-the-meat-to-smithfield https://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/post/getting-the-meat-to-smith...
- leg100 4y agoFascinating. This is a great book: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Air-Aerofilms-0711031444/plp https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Ai... It shows major railway stations from above. As the photos were taken long ago in the 50s and 60s they reveal how freight yards took up most of the real estate around stations. For example, Kings X had a yard extending for a large area behind it, which is now the redeveloped area, the "coal yard", etc. By this way, goods inc meat made their deep into the heart of cities. Presumably they then made their way to market via wagons, horse and cart or motorised. Unless the rail yard was in the market like in Smithfield!