Smithfield some 170 years ago was a large open space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London Which

Smithfield some 170 years ago was a large open space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London Which for several hundred years had held the Bartholomew Fair, a seeming high point of the year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Fair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Fair My Grandfather's grandfather was born close by 10 years earlier, and it is strange to think he would have witnessed it, although by that point I imagine it had greatly faded from its glory.