Four men in a cafe in Smithfield Market. c.1965

Four men in a cafe in Smithfield Market. c.1965The 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

4th Edition will have you exploring London by bicycle in no time

Old houses in Bermondsey Street

Street scene at Covent Garden with underground Station and horse and cart in the background

The picture was taken at the Bassano Photographic Studio at 38 Dover Street in Mayfair

A waiter carries a tankard and bowl towards the gentlemen diners at their table

and some suggestions for where to eat and drink along the way

George Davison Reid took this photo from the Strand

Second edition of the map view of London which was included in the first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day

photographing the cults and fashions of youth culture during the 1960s

Construction of District Line underground railway

Wolfgang Suschitzky photographed the working-class community that populated the Charing Cross area at the time