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I just spotted this image in the Standard about Christmas back in the day:
"Live poultry for sale at the Caledonian Open Air Market at Islington"
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/photos-london-christmas-100-years-ago-b438919.html
Oliver Schick
I think there was a variety of different buildings. Livestock pens, market halls, slaughterhouses etc.. massive site, over 20 acres I think. it was built to take live animals when it became impractical to have them at Smithfield’s, about 1850