Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, in 1900

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Deptford Market, where the foreign cattle were slaughtered, and which was threatened with extinction (it was to close in 1913), owed its establishment to a serious outbreak of cattle disease, and was in 1900 just twenty-nine years old.

It covered thirty acres, and occupied the site of the Admiralty dockyard (where Peter the Great worked), traces of which still remained in the shape of old brick terraces, which contained the offices, etc.

The lofty shipbuilding sheds were now the lairs where all animals landed from abroad were examined by the Government Inspector, diseased beasts being at once slaughtered and cremated.

Around the lairs were the abbatoirs, for although the cattle arrived alive, none left except in the shape of carcases.

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