Smithfield's 900 years of blood and guts How traders at London's oldest meat market worked in Dickensian 'filth and mire' for centuries as gruesome executions took place yards away
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Smithfield Market was, wrote Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, a place where 'filth and mire' rose 'nearly ankle-deep', as the 'reeking bodies of cattle' massed all around.
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