Four men in a cafe in Smithfield Market. c.1965 Charles Booth Speakers include Emmeline Pankhurst and

Speakers include Emmeline Pankhurst and George Lansbury

Buy my goose

This Bankside wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot when George Davison Reid took this photo

as is next door's 'The House of God' sign

they were large buildings on four or five floors

Four men in a cafe in Smithfield Market. c.1965 Charles Booth Speakers include Emmeline Pankhurst andThe fact that these men are wearing white coats indicates that they worked at the market. Smithfield Market is a wholesale meat market in the City of London. Covering an area of 10 acres, it has stood on this site, just outside the old City walls, for 800 years. Red meat and poultry was unloaded and carried into Smithfield marketplace early each morning. The market supplies inner city butchers, shops and restaurants with meat for the coming day and