Tag: meat

• How meat and water designed part of London: the drovers’ route from Islington to Smithfield, a new walk from London Open City

  Last week I led a walk exploring the drovers’ route from the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington to Smithfield Market. This took in the New River, the history of Sadler’s Wells, Spa Green and especially the impact of the movement of meat and water on the design and development of the route along St John’s Street to […]

  Paul Lincoln

  8 August 2015

  Design, Green City, Historic buildings walk

  architecture, cattle, City of London Corporation, green building, Listed buildings, Make Architects, markets, meat, Open House, pub signs, pub windows, transport, water

• How food built London: follow the drover’s route from the Royal Agricultural Hall to Smithfield

  From the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington to Smithfield, walk the drover’s route to market. A new guided walk looks at the way in which food impacted on the design of London.  This walk, the first of three, looks at meat and water and follows the blood-smattered path from Upper Street, down St John’s Street across […]

  Paul Lincoln

  12 April 2011

  Historic buildings walk, Modern buildings walk, Typography

  food, markets, meat, water