Its a sadly continuing trend from the 60s - when Covent Garden was planned and 'moved' to 'New Covent Garden' and probably more significantly in Paris Les Halle

Its a sadly continuing trend from the 60s - when Covent Garden was planned and 'moved' to 'New Covent Garden' and probably more significantly in Paris Les Halles was demolished and redeveloped (you can read about it in Zola's 'Le Ventre de Paris'), moving to Rungis and Villette. Its hard to go against the grain of the scale, and dullness, of modern industrial food production. Especially when real estate development is at play at the same time also. I hope the Dagenham markets will be as exciting and interesting a place to go, but fully expect them to be about as soulless as 'New Covent Garden'