Smithfield Market’s Christmas Eve meat auction is back for 2025

Smithfield meat market’s Christmas Eve sale is a much-loved highlight for many attendees, and the organisers have confirmed to ianVisits that it will go ahead again this year.The sell-off dates back to the days before refrigeration, when customers would buy as close to Christmas as possible, and meat dealers needed to sell off everything before the Christmas shutdown.
Such was the throng at the market on Christmas Eve that it sometimes made the news, as in 1912, when one trader was said to