Comments on: The Smithfield Christmas Eve Meat Auction https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Calum https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1533767 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:18:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1533767 Silly me, I went on Christmas Eve and the auction was the previous day

]]> By: Susan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1532274 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:25:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1532274 Even though, like Christine Swan, I am repulsed by this, I also LOVE IT. Go figure.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1532187 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:54:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1532187 In the midst of life I woke to find myself……………..Reading about (let’s face it) really eccentric and unusual traditions, involving meat, smiling people, piles of bloody plastic bags on the pavement.
wonderful photos, and more.

GA, you are the limit. I love discovering the world you show us every day.
Onward and upward.

]]> By: barry john matthews https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1532178 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:47:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1532178 Just wonderful to see these photographs at a time when great traditions are being stopped or cast aside by those who think they are above it all.
It made me Christmassy for the first time this season.
Thank you.
Have a great Christmas.
Barry.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1532140 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:02:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1532140 Absolutely fantastic, wonderful, I’m speechless. Wow!

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/12/15/the-smithfield-christmas-eve-meat-auction/#comment-1532136 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:49:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198478#comment-1532136 As an almost lifelong vegetarian, I do recoil slightly as these photos but, I acknowledge the long history of Smithfield and markets in general. I have only bid in two auctions – once for a collapsible top hat, which I didn’t win, and secondly for a jug and washbowl set which I did. Unfortunately, I managed to break the handle off of the jug. I’m definitely still in the market for a top hat though.

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