become inevitable that the market would have to be moved from its City site. Lower Thames Street was to become a major dual carriageway, which would have split the Market and prohibited use of the old highway for parking buyers' vehicles.

In January 1982, the Market moved from the City to a site at West India Docks, Poplar. The move was made possible by an arrangement between the City Corporation, the merchants, the Docklands Joint Committee, (representing the GLC and riparian boroughs) and the Department of the Environment, together with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which purchased the site from the Port of London Authority and leased it to the Corporation. Each year since the move, the Lord Mayor of London has presented the nominal rent in theat Uppsala University, who confirmed that after losing a key battle against Russia in 1709, Charles and the remnants of his army took refuge in what is now Moldova, then part of the Ottoman empire.

Dubbed “the Lion of the North” in a book by the French writer Voltaire and also known as the “Swedish Meteor” for his early military prowess, Charles, who acceded to the throne in 1697 at the age of 15, had bitten off rather more than he could chew by taking on Russia, and spent the following six years in exile in and around present-day Turkey.

Having acquired a taste for the local cuisine, he returned to Sweden in 1714 with the recipe not just for köfte, the spiced lamb and beef meatballs that in time