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The Auction Mart on New Market Street in Castle Douglas is an octagonal building, constructed around 1900 as a cattle market, and used for that purpose since its construction. It is owned by Wallets Marts, a firm that has operated a cattle market on the site since 1888. It was designated a Category A listed building in 1990.
The Forum Boarium (Classical Latin: [ˈfɔrʊm‿boˈaːriʊ̃], Italian: Foro Boario) was the cattle market or forum venalium of ancient Rome.It was located on a level piece of land near the Tiber between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills.
Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942. In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
The market at Smithfield in the City of London has been in operation for over 800 years. By the mid-Victorian era, the development of London had made the transportation of livestock into the centre of the city problematic and in 1852 the Smithfield Market Removal Act was passed, allowing for the construction of a new Metropolitan Cattle Market on the site of a demolished mansion, Copenhagen ...
Diagram of Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington The newly opened market in a contemporary etching Inside the Metropolitan Meat Market. The Metropolitan Cattle Market (later Caledonian Market), just off the Caledonian Road in the parish of Islington (now the London Borough of Islington) was built by the City of London Corporation and was opened in June 1855 by Prince Albert.
A secretary bought three shares of her company's stock for $60 each in 1935. Grace Groner reinvested her dividends for 75 years, and her stake ballooned to $7.2 million.
In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [3] The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [4] The Livestock Exchange Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [5]
Of all the cattle ever landed at Deptford market, the largest proportion came from the U.S.A. [85] The practice started in 1878 when American cattle and pigs were "scheduled" for port slaughter. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] [ 88 ] By 1913, when Deptford closed, 3,144,400 American cattle had been landed there, besides sheep and pigs.