Smithfield Market

The Smithfield Market is one of the oldest markets in London, founded in the 10th century for the selling of livestock and later meat and poultry. It is located in the Smithfield district of the City of London (London, England). The present covered market on the site was designed by Sir Horace Hones and completed in 1868.

In London Labour and the London Poor:

Of the “Smithfield Races.” (Volume 1)

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF SECOND-HAND ARTICLES. (Volume 2)

Shadwell

Shadwell is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, UK. It gained parish status in 1669 when Thomas Neale, a project-manager and politician, built a waterworks on large ponds in the area and developed the waterfront so that Shadwell became a maritime hamlet. In 1801, the waterworks were sold to the London Dock Company and later the East London Waterwork Company in 1808. It became the site of the London Docks and in the nineteenth century was a dangerous area associated with slums, prostitution, and opium dens.