![]() We’ve lost lots of history,” he explains. Pucknell remembers how the walls at the Newmarket used to be covered in badges worn by bummarees, the Smithfield porters: “When they retired they would put their badges behind the bar … but then they turned it into and got rid of all that. The Market Porter, along with Smithfield standards The Hope and the Fox and Anchor. The Cock Tavern shut in 2013 and The Newmarket went in 2006, leaving just three in central London. Smithfield used to have at least half a dozen early houses, but they have slowly closed down over the years. The Hope near Smithfield Market is one of London’s early houses. “Now, people sometimes come in just to have breakfast,” she says. War thunder market full#Giulia Barbos, who tends bar at the Fox and Anchor, says the rising price of a stout and full English has meant the crowds have moved from market workers towards office workers, who might have a bit more money to spend. Walk into a pub at 7am and you’ll meet construction workers, police, nurses and paramedics, people from the media industry and other office workers. While market worker drinking culture has declined over the decades – hit by the anti drink-driving campaigns in the 80s, the congestion charge in 2003 and most recently price rises – the early house tradition is being kept alive by others looking for a morning pint. In Leith, Gladstones used to open at dawn to serve railway workers, cabbies and postmen, but now just keeps regular hours. In Dublin, Slatterys is one of a number of early houses still going strong near the old markets. In London, as well as up and down Britain, early houses are often located next to traditional marketplaces worked by people like those in Pucknell’s family, or close to docks and other industry sites where people work in shifts. There has been a market at Smithfield, central London, since the 12th century. ![]()
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