Should have been a railway station

London’s Smithfield meat market is a Grade II listed building, designed by Sir Horace Jones and completed in 1868. It’s an interesting area to have a wander round, as long as you are OK with the smell of raw meat.

The elaborate Victorian stonework and heraldry are reminiscent of the grand railway termini of the same period. The railway connection is not that far-fetched. The market sits over a cut-and-cover railway tunnel that was closed early in the last century but which has recently reopened for use by Thameslink services.