Les Halles would like a word
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All you need to know…
Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, said the decision represented a “positive new chapter” for the markets as it “empowers traders to build a sustainable future in premises that align with their long-term business goals”.
Yer what?
“It’s not us, it’s them”
Basically we want to property develop your market and have investors wanting a return. We want to bring five guys pret itsu Nero Gail’s etc to the area to freshen the place up and give it some vibrancy.
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The John Peel stage at Glastonbury was rebranded as Woodies last year. The official explanation doesn’t really hold water… Glastonbury’s John Peel Stage renamed Woodsies for 2023 festival
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Would definitely happen in France.
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It’s fucking shit, there’s no wonder every major city to some degree or another now looks the same, with architecture as unimaginative as the greedy wankers that brokered the development of the land.
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BUT there is much less demand for a wholesale meat market in the middle of Barbican
I love a tradition but the amount of porters wheeling a trolley of pigs carcasses round the streets is much less than it was & much less stores ( I used to go past or through for work for many years)
Keeping the building is v important ( & it is listed) but restaurants dont go buy & buy their own meat anymore (especially having to fight traffic in central London or out to E London) & hardly any retail butchers left & Id say both have special suppliers who deliver
Billingsgate closed early 80s so if new one was viable they would keep it / Smithfield has been dieing for years
Neither can really create a mixed foody exp like Borough ( which I imagine does no wholesale from site) or Barcelona one
Its not just the man trying to make a fast buck & more urban geography ( get me!) & food retail trends
I will miss the smell of walking through the central avenue in the summer though
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Another nail in the coffin for the sterile old sleepy city.
Sure, I’m not arguing with the economics. I haven’t lived in London for 12 years so I’m way out of touch, and my post was pure sentiment. You can’t help thinking though that whatever replaces it will be really bland like Andrew said and bring zero to the area, whether retail or residential. Some kind of non-profit, community scheme of some kind would be my preferred, but I guess money talks
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It’s just about practicalities. When I was wholesaling veg, our company moved from New Covent Garden (which is also now on the way out, having itself moved from the old market in the west end) to a market near Heathrow. Not only did a lot of produce arrive in the country by plane, but our walk in customer base expanded massively with businesses from across the SE who didn’t want to go into central London, taking advantage of the easy motorway access, while the days of chefs visiting a market to hand pick their produce are long gone.
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Whilst I am sure there are good reasons for the change, in the wider context of what is happening to London, this makes me very sad. See also plans to turn the amazing living history of Liverpool Street station’s roof into (another) fucking shopping centre.
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at least theyre not still trying to knock whole thing down ( or are they still)
(as its What dont you get) & Piers mentioned Liverpool St Station
In the film of Tinker Tailor ( which I love ) the hotel Smiley holes up in is near Liverpool St but in the Le Carre novel its near Paddington
( Blood starting to boil)
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This era of bandcamp and soundcloud remixes of songs that have used AI tools to extract the acapella and you end up with this vocal that is ducking in volume in bits and is covered in weird glitchy artifacts like it was partially downloaded from 1999 limewire or something.
It reminds me of that period when everyone got ableton and was timestretching any vocal to 124bpm and you’d get these unintentionally warbling vocals on every diva vocal they used.
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Spleeter extraction probably, from mp3/ YouTube rips. It doesn’t sound great
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Really not feeling the new SoundCloud UI. Trying waaay to hard to ape the Spotify lay out
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Horrendous isn’t it.
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This keeps popping up on my
Feed. Gregg Wallace MBE on Instagram: "60 years old, 12 stone, less than 17% fat."